Here we go again boys and girls, I wonder how many of you are actually boys or girls, none of my business though. Let's get right into the review responses, I just finished writing a chapter of UH, and am too tired for a long AN.

Oblivious IJ: Sadly for some people who read this story, this will not be a harem story. Apologies. And yeah, Orchid and Nora just had to meet, it was destiny, fate, and all that good stuff. Fuck Remnant.

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Beta: Crowskull

The Blind Huntsman

Chapter 37- Volume 1, Episode 4

Another Go

It was night time in the hall that everyone was told to sleep in. Kai was able to tell it was night because of a few reasons, the first and most obvious one, everyone was sleeping. He was able to sense all the quiet beating hearts around him, with only a few still barely not asleep yet.

After Ozpin's announcement, Orchid decided to host a pre-celebratory party in the ballroom. Apparently that meant stacking pillows, sleeping bags, chairs, and basically whatever else she was able to get her hands on, and with the help of nora Valkyrie who apparently already made best friends with Rick and Brick, only to then make best friends with Orchid literally at first sight.

Friendship at first sight was how they put it, and in all honesty it fit them well. There was some quiet guy that did the same thing that he did, sit on the outskirts and hide from the massive pillow fight, ignore the second argument Brick and Weiss had, and snicker quietly in amusement when Jaune had the unfortunance to meet Orchid and Nora for the first time. Whoever he was, Kai already likes him.

Now it was all quiet, everyone tired themselves out about an hour ago. Kai could safely assume that Ruby passed out asleep right beside her sister, as he could sense the blonde brawler sprawled out across the floor horizontally on a sleeping bag, and a lighter weight snoring quietly on top of her. The two bodies made a plus sign, and he didn't dare to try and get in the way of that cuteness.

Kai was trying to go to sleep, but something kept him awake. He could sense that someone else was awake, and not actively trying to get to sleep. Sitting against a wall isolated from everyone else. When he sniffed the air in his nose, it smelled like a faunus, but it could be either or. This room was full of both races after all, and while he won't be pointing any fingers, some of them did not smell good.

With nothing else to do, Kai sighed and stood up. His tail hanging tired behind him as he stepped over sleeping bodies and made his way toward the other figure. If he wasn't going to be able to fall asleep, he might as well make a new friends. Yang, Ruby, Orchid and the rest of his friends have been bugging him to become more social and make friends out of their circle, so he might as well do that.

He heard the person gasp lightly as they caught sight of him. He was being quiet, apparently enough so that this person didn't hear him until he was about seven paces away from them. It was a girl by the pitch of her tone, he could tell, and now that he was closer he could smell something… feline in the air.

"It's you…" The cat faunus said quietly, resting her book to her side as she looked up at him.

"Blake?" Kai asked, his voice barely above that of a whisper as to not disturb anyone.

Blake nodded her head in response, and when that yearned no results she suddenly remembered the black blindfold he had over his eyes. He was blind, of course, she should have kept that in mind. "Yes." She whispered back to him.

Kai let on a small smile, happy that she isn't trying to run away from him this time. He wasn't going to push like he did before, that wouldn't mean anything good. Instead, he slowly made his way to the wall she was leaned on, and slowly slid down to a sitting position. Moving his tail so that it rested in a coil on his lap so it didn't get in the way of anything.

"Are you going to run from me again?" Kai felt the need to ask.

"Not this time." Blake answered, honestly. Kai sensed the truth in her words, and nodded his head in response.

"Where have you been? Since that day I mean, I wanted to thank you." Kai said, turning his head slightly to regard the cat faunus.

"I've been… moving around a lot. I don't really want to talk about it." Blake said, getting a nod of understanding from the blind boy. "You shouldn't want to thank me…"

Kai perked up at that, raising an eyebrow above his blindfold. "Why wouldn't I? You saved my life, and my mother. Who was pregnant at the time." He felt amused when Blake snapped her head toward him, probably with wide eyes filled with shock and surprise.

"She was!?" Blake asked, a little too loudly at first. She calmed herself down when she heard a groan from the crowd of sleeping students before her.

"Yeah, she was." Kai smiled at the thought of his little sister. "She gave birth while I was unconscious, Malienna Matsuoka." He chuckled, and turned his head full to face hers. "She was lucky to be born, if you haven't given me the opening I needed… I don't want to think about what could have happened to us."

"..." Blake remained quiet, though Kai sensed a shift within her shoulders. She seemed to be relieved about it, not that she was going to admit it. "I'm glad." Or she could, and surprise him. But the happy moment was short lived, Kai sensed her looking at him, straight in the eyes. She's already seen them, and what they could do, she was there when it happened. "The reason I ran from you the first time was because… I was scared at first."

Kai hung his head at that. "I wasn't going to ask."

"No, but I know you were thinking about it." She accused, and got no such denial from Kai. "That's what I thought."

"Why?" Kai said, and it didn't take long for Blake to realize what he meant.

"What you did back then… I stepped in because I didn't want a part in what the White Fang was doing anymore, killing an innocent blind child sounded wrong, and was wrong. You didn't do anything wrong, and Sienna even agreed with me on that, even if she didn't show it. I wanted to escape that, I didn't want what they were doing on my conscious."

Kai growled lightly at the mention of the supreme leader, he was never able to pinpoint what she sounded like. But she was partly responsible for the death of his father. She was on his list of people to deal with someday, but was lower on the priority side of things, second to last only to Adam Taurus.

"But when you used that… power of yours." She didn't know any other way to describe it. "That light that came from your eyes nearly blinded me, and nearly killed that woman."

"Cinder… I know what I did." Kai said, tone flat, patient, yet ready to snap at any moment. "I wish I had the chance to finish her off."

"Me too." Blake agreed, not surprising Kai at all. He sensed the hatred she also had for the woman, and he wasn't going to pretend that he didn't want her head on a pike after what she did.

There was a few moments of silence between the two, each of them thinking hard on what the other has said. They weren't friends before, but they were at the very least on good terms right now. What happened in Mistral changed the world, and the White Fang for that matter. The organization has grown more violent, not even allowing those who want to leave to escape from their wrath. It wasn't what Blake signed up for, and it wasn't what Kai thought was good for the world, he'd rather them all be cut off from everything else.

"Why did you come to Beacon?" Kai asked next, changing the topic. "If you wanted to escape the White Fang like you said before, becoming a Huntress isn't exactly going to bar you from making contact with them."

"I am aware," Blake closed her eyes, and leaned back against the wall. "I want to make a difference, after causing so much pain in my life I decided that from now on I want to do something good. Stopping the White Fang is my ultimate goal." She explained, not at all afraid to admit it when the only one listening was Kai himself. Someone whom she knows wants to end the White Fang as much or even more than she does.

"You're telling me this why?" Kai asked, sensing around to make sure no one else was listening, and was satisfied to know that no one was and everyone was still asleep.

"I don't really know…" Blake shrugged her shoulders. "Maybe its because it's good to find someone to relate to, maybe it's because I am tired and not thinking straight. Either way, I don't think you are going to tell anyone about my past."

Kai shrugged his shoulders next, proving her point. "It's not my secret to tell, and after what you did for me, I am in your debt."

Blake snorted. "Don't be a fool, you saved my life right after I did yours, there are no debts to pay on either side."

"Okay, sure. But you still saved my mother and sister." Kai chuckled when he sensed Blake remember that fact. "So that's still two more favors I owe you on their behalf."

"If you say so." The cat faunus said with a sigh. "I am going to go to sleep, our implied initiation is going to start at noon tomorrow, and it's already two in the morning."

"It is?" Kai asked, surprised.

"We have been talking for little over two hours." Blake pointed out.

"Oh… I didn't even notice." Kai said, making a move to stand up again. Blake didn't stop him, he had his own sleeping back from across the ballroom after all.

"That was to be expected, you are blind after all, you must not have seen how dark it was."

Kai stopped himself right before he was going to start to walk again. Blake wondered what he was doing, just standing there, and could admit was a little worried when he hung his head and traced a hand around his eyes.

"It's always dark for me." Kai whispered, and Blake only heard it because of her extra set of ears. She didn't know how to respond to that, and watched as Kai muttered a goodnight to her and made his way through the mass of sleeping bodies. Even though he was blind, he didn't touch a single one of them, he didn't even brush up against anyone. Blake thought it impressive.

She blew out the candle that he didn't know she had lit, and pushed it to the side. Resting her head against the wall with a quiet sigh. She didn't know why, but she kept thinking about what he just said.

It's always dark for me.

How would he even know what darkness looks like?

A memory flashed through her mind.

Kai Matsuoka standing in front of her in defense, a steaming fist and a white hot bracer on his forearm, along with a silver black sword in his right hand. Then a blinding white light. She forced her eyes open to see what was happening, and saw Kai staring straight into Cinders eyes as her left arm and side of her face was burned away.

The one thing that stuck out to her, was that he was staring into her eyes. Did that mean he could see in that moment? She didn't know, but she did know one thing for certain.

That boy was powerful for his age, and he was dangerous. She knew trauma when she saw it, and Kai changed in that moment. She didn't know how much because she didn't know him personally before. But as she observed him from across the room, she noticed that he slept with his sword. He didn't let the teachers take it from him to put it away in a locker like all the others.

He was paranoid, always thinking about a possible threat even when they were possibly in one of the safest places in the world, and that made him all the more dangerous.

But perhaps it could also be useful…

"Boop!"

Something tapped Kai's nose, making him groan tiredly and swat at the area in front of his face. When his hand hit nothing, he groggily made to fall back to sleep.

"Boop!"

This time his hand snapped up and grabbed the finger that was keeping him awake, his eyes snapped open and he felt a cold air hit his face. The part of his face that was supposed to be covered by his blindfold.

"Oooh wow, you really are blind." The girl said with awe in her voice even as Kai snapped into a sitting position and pulled his blindfold back down to cover his face.

"Why were you doing that?" Kai asked as he made sure that his headband was tight around his face.

"Well, my new pal Orchid kept telling me how cool you were, and I told her how cool my Renny was. So before we went to sleep, we agreed that we would trade our care bears for the day." Kai was blind, but for some reason he imagined that the girl was grinning widely right now.

He didn't even deny that it wouldn't be something Orchid wouldn't do. She would totally do that to prove a point, at least most of her personalities would. That's just how she was.

With a sigh, he decided that he wasn't going to tell his best friend for a day to go away. Because if she was anything like Orchid, and with how fast the two of them became friends, he didn't think that she would anyway.

"Damn it Orchid, okay. What's your name?" Kai asked as he stood up, throwing his hoodie back over his body as he did so.

"Nora Valkyrie! And I'm your best friend for today Kaizy!" The girl cheered, jumping up with a giggle, and then leaned in to whisper to him. "She told me to call you that by the way."

"Of course she did…" Kai sighed again, and then that sigh turned into a yawn as he started moving. "Right, so I'm guessing the bathroom is over where everyone else is piling up in?"

Nora gasped exasperatedly. "You noticed! Wow, no wonder Orchid always thinks you're secretly able to see."

Kai snickered as the two of them began to walk toward the congregation. He wondered where the rest of his friends were, but figured that they were probably already getting ready. Orchid was going to be with this Ren guy, and he could already hear Brick and Rick fighting over one of the shower stalls. He wondered if the locker rooms were separated off by gender, but when Nora walked with him straight into what he thought was a men's locker room.

She kept following him, chatting with him the whole time even as guys turned their heads in wonder at the only girl in there with them. After waving to Brick, who was pouting after having lost the rock, paper, scissors game with his brother, Kai started to brush his teeth next to some other guy.

"That's Kaizy."

"That's Renny."

So, Orchid was there too. For some reason Kai felt like he should have expected that, but at least he finally met this Ren guy that Nora was chatting about for a while now.

"I apologize for her behavior, Nora can be overly friendly at times." Ren said to him as he made sure his clothing was on and buttoned correctly.

"Hey!"

"Yeah, I'm sorry too, Orchid can be overly everything at times." Kai replied.

"Hey!"

Ren snickered, as did Kai because of the reactions that both of the girls gave them. Dealing with Nora actually wasn't that bad, she reminded him of Orchids most frequent personality. Cheery and Bubbly. He wondered if Ren had to face the speech of the Flamingo Goddess yet, though he wouldn't be surprised if he did.

"So, can you make pancakes?" Nora asked him right as he spit out a blob of spit mixed with toothpaste and whatever else was in his mouth.

"He's blind, Nora." Ren pointed out, and already Kai liked this guy even more.

After that whole fiasco was dealt with. Kai and Ren made a silent agreement to stay around each other as to try and get Nora and Orchid to forget about their deal and go back to their rightful best friends. They were stubborn, and wouldn't admit defeat, but all the two boys had to do was wait and see what would happen. Soon enough they would get tired of this, they had to.

Of course they didn't end up doing that, because when Yang and Ruby showed up, that plan became a bust.

"Sup Kai, I see you've made a new friend." Yang teased, implying that she knew of this arrangement.

"We tried to get Orchid to change her mind, but you know how she is." Ruby said, that one sentence explained so much with so little words.

"Tch, you always have to ruin my fun." Yang whined.

"You deserve it after getting into another fight the other night!" Ruby exclaimed.

"Psh, please. They started it, so they deserved what they got."

"They touched a single strand of your hair didn't they." Kai asked.

"No." Yang replied a little too quickly.

"Can still detect lies by the way." Kai pointed out, holding back his laughter.

"Damn you, and damn your stupid hacks!" Yang exclaimed indignantly.

"If you stop lying then I'll stop calling you out." Kai said with a snicker, followed up by Ruby, Orchid and Nora all laughing at Yang's expense. She wasn't used to being the one teased, Yang was used being the one doing the teasing. She would get him back someday… it was just a matter of time.

"Anyway, before Yang begins to plot her revenge on Kai, aren't we supposed to go to the cliffs or something?" Rick asked as he crossed his arms in thinking. Already geared up, as well as his brother. They went on to have a minor change to their outfits, having more armour and more conductive elements on their combat outfits to make it easier to use their semblance at a higher power. After 'confiscating', the battery that Brick was looking for, he along with his brother managed to find a way to split it in half without losing any of the power output. Then under the watchful eye of their aunt Glynda Goodwitch, applied the new tool to the inside of the hilts of their swords. They've kept it a secret for now, wanting to show off their new powers in whatever initiation they had to do in front of all of the other students and future professors. They even have a special cheer prepared for that moment, one that would solidify itself into the history of Beacon forever.

"Sure, that sounds like a plan…" Kai trailed off as he heard Pyrrha speaking to Weiss not too far away from them. They were both considered friends to him, so he wanted them in his friend circle. "Hey Pyrrha!" He said with a wave in his direction, alerting the rest of his friends, and gaining the attention of Weiss as well.

"Oh, hello!" Pyrrha greeted him back quickly, happy to see another friendly face. "I didn't see you there, I was just speaking to Weiss here."

"We were talking about becoming partners for our time at Beacon, have you decided on a partner yet?" Weiss asked as she crossed her arms, the one person she actually respected out of the whole group before her was Kai, and she made sure to glare back at the red eyed boy who argued with her on equal grounds yesterday, the same one who stuck his tongue back at her in response. So childish.

Kai could feel about six pairs of eyes on him, waiting for him to answer her question. In truth, he hasn't really thought about partners for his time at Beacon. He just assumed that Orchid would just seek him out and stay partners with her for another few years.

"Whoever ends up as my partner I guess, I don't really think I'd have much choice in the matter." Kai said with a shrug.

"Ah, you are going to be letting the chips fall where they may." Pyrrha smiled. "Just as I hope to do."

Kai shrugged again, not really having anything else to say on the matter. Even though he sensed a certain Flamingo loving Goddess twitch a little bit and mutter something under her breath about betrayal. He had a feeling she knew he could hear her, she made it quite the habit to mess with him like that. At least she was paying attention to him again, and whatever deal she made with that Nora girl seemed to have forgotten as he heard the ginger talking the other boys ear off. Though just like him, he seemed to have the patience of a God.

When Jaune walked up and called Weiss snow angel however, that amount of cringe with the way he said it caused Kai to take that cue for what it was, and take off. Of course Orchid was with him as he predicted, and he sensed the twins follow after him as well. Soon after that, he lost most of them in the crowd as the temperature changed from comfortable, to a slightly warmer tone. He simply followed the crowd and chatted with Orchid on the way, wondering how this initiation was going to fair up with the one from Signal he took long ago. It all felt like it was much more than two years ago, but of course it was only that.

He called his mother last night, almost right after everyone else fell asleep. He remembered the combination of engraved numbers and spoke to her. She wished him luck, and to be careful. Marron has been more worried for his safety ever since she found out what silver eyes were, and what they meant, and understandably so. He had a target on his back, especially after what he did to Cinder, and probably always would for the rest of his life. He couldn't stop trying to become a Huntsman as everything was now, he couldn't afford to. He was in this to the end, and his mother was going to have to accept that.

When she put Malienna on the scroll though, his heart immediately melted.

'Ka ka!' Was what she called him, once she got the 'i' pronounced in his name, she would probably get even cuter. After talking with her for a bit, telling his baby sister that he loved her, which she replied with 'Yay!' He began to focus on passing this initiation.

He felt his feet touch grass, and suddenly a bad memory flew through his head. Back when Qrow was still teaching at Signal and handled the initiation two years ago. He still wasn't very good at falling, ironic since he could literally control the speed of which he fell at all the time.

"Welcome all, to your initiation." Glynda said loudly in greeting. "Please step on the plates before you, and we shall get started on explaining what must be done shortly."

Kai's heart dropped, he knew what was about to happen. The plates even felt the same, and he wouldn't be surprised if these were the same kind of plates that flung him into the forest a while back. He gulped as his toes felt out the grooves of the plate, and almost completely ignored the comforting words that was Orchid saying, "Don't worry Kaizy, just don't land on your head and it'll all be fine." That was one way to comfort someone at least, and somehow it strangely did make Kai feel a little better. He sensed his friends and other people he didn't know step on the plates all lined up across from the cliffside itself, if only with a few feet spread to spread them out in between.

He felt a little less better when Ozpin came out to stand beside Miss Goodwitch. He knew the man wanted him for something, enough so that he even had Ruby get into Beacon early for insurance purposes, and something to even fall back on if Kai didn't work out for him. He was careful around the man, he couldn't afford not too, and he knew that Ozpin was also being careful around him. Eventually, they would have to come to some sort of agreement.

He turned his face toward the end of the cliff as he forced himself to think about something else, and he regretted making that decision when he reminded himself that he was about to be launched up high into the air again at a height he would much rather not be at.

"For years, each of you have trained to become Hunters, the protectors of humanity against the unending tide of Grimm and evil alike. You have come to my school for that reason, or at least that is what I hope it is." A few snickers of amusement to that, and Kai even cracked a small smile. Though he still didn't miss the hidden message in his words. Ozpin was ever the cryptic. "Today, you will all be tested on your skills and abilities in the Emerald Forest, each of you will be launched-" Kai blanched at that. "Into the forest via these launching pads. Now, I am sure most if not all of you know that teams of four are assembled each and every year."

"That will not be changing, the first person you make eye contact with will be your partner and teammate for the next four years." A few murmurs of concern and worries at that one, and Kai heard Ruby nearly pass out of shock, as well as the Violet twins. He was even surprised, he didn't know that something as trivial as eye contact would be so important in the end. It didn't matter to him, but he did wonder how that would work for himself specifically, it wasn't like he could actually look at someone in the eyes himself, and he sorta had a blindfold on.

"In Mister Matsuoka's case," Kai perked up, as well as most of the other people around him. "He is blind, and therefore understandably cannot make eye contact with anyone knowingly, so for him, the first person to grab his shoulder shall be his partner, and it would also work vice versa." And the answer to his question was given just as he thought about it. Kai nodded his head in understanding, but couldn't ignore the mumblings about his being there, and questions on if he was actually blind. It was to be expected, as far as he knew, he was one of the only blind Huntsman to have ever existed. The only other blind person he knows who is blind was Fox.

"Now, when we launch you into the forest, you will be using your own landing strategy. Unless in the case of extreme emergency, you will all be alone in this together, if a professor needs to save you… you may try again next semester." Ozpin explained, and cleared his throat to silence the murmurs and whispers. "One last thing… do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path, the Grimm in recent days are growing ever more dangerous, do whatever you have to in order to survive, or you will die."

"Once launched into the Emerald Forest, you must find a partner, and secure one of the relics hidden somewhere in the forest. Once your objective is complete, you may climb up the mountainside and return to the assembly hall. Teams will be made straight after, if you pass and are injured, you will be notified of your team and position once you recover." Glynda explained calmly and sternly, her voice easily going over that of the students before her, and when a certain pair of nephews made to speak, a single glare was enough to silence them both. She personally saw to it that their pads were not next to each other, and they were two people apart. It didn't seem like much, but each of their pads will be launching them in opposite directions. The twins have worked and fought together their whole lives, to become partners for another four years would not be beneficial for them in the long run.

"Now, is there any questions?" Ozpin asked politely.

"Uh, yeah. I have one." Jaune said as he rose his hands, on the plate three paces down from Kai's.

"Good, then we shall begin." Ozpin said, ignoring Jaune in the most polite way he could imagine as he pushed a button no one knew he had in his hand.

Kai widened his eyes as he sensed some mechanisms in his launch pad shift, and vibrate. He was just able to scream out a curse as he was suddenly thrown into the air and right over Ozpin's head, and straight into the sunset. Next, three pads went off at once, then four, and so on and so forth.

Brick waved goodbye to his brother as he was next to fly through the air, and Rick waved back as he flew off in a different direction. Ruby and Yang were next, and then Orchid, Nora, and about a dozen others in quick succession.

Before Jaune was even able to ask his question, his and Pyrrha's plate launched at the same time. Ozpin took a sip from his mug as he watched the students fly into the forest, and in the distance, he could see Kai make his first landing, a good several hundred meters from anyone else.

"Was it really wise to send Mister Matsuoka so far away from everyone else?" Glynda asked as she activated her scroll, and started switching viewpoints to several students who also began to land.

"I believe that Mister Matsuoka will do just fine, he is one of the best we have this year after all. He has experience almost no other student in the first year has." Ozpin pointed out.

"Yes, but that isn't something one should boast of." Glynda said with a sigh. "I shall keep a close eye on him if anything, I hope you know what you're doing for once."

"Oh Glynda, have some faith. I am not completely without hope." Ozpin said with a chuckle, earning a long eye roll from the blonde professor.

"Sure, let's leave it at that."

Kai blasted air beneath his body every few seconds. It was his way as a sort of flying without really flying. He didn't know how close he was to the ground, so he kept a quick yet comfortable pace of air blasts beneath his feet and body as his landing strategy.

When he felt leaves and branches start to tickle his toes, he took that as his cue. With a groan, he blasted air above himself, pencil diving straight through the leaves and branches. Right before he thought he was going to hit the ground, he blasted more air beneath his feet. Cushioning his fall right as he hit the ground.

Silver Ebony sung as it was ripped out of its sheath, and the first thing Kai did was sense his surroundings.

It felt like any other forest, but this one seemed different. The ground was softer in places, and very hard in others. The trees were larger and thicker, and the insects were much less plentiful than what he was used to in a forest.

This was definitely a Grimm infested forest. He stayed on his guard as he started walking. He couldn't sense anyone else nearby, and he didn't want to risk focusing harder lest he be attacked from behind. He had a feeling he was going to need every drop of aura he had.

His hiking lasted just a few minutes before the Grimm decided to make themselves known. Beowolves, Kai figured. He was quickly surrounded by about four of them. They got bigger than they were in recent years, stronger too, and no doubt faster. That made them all the more dangerous.

Kai kept a level head as he got into a stance, he could use his flames to wipe them out all in one go, but he wanted to save the flame dust he had in the device Ruby made for him. It was upgraded now, and the flame dust was more plentiful. But once he ran out, he ran out. He didn't keep any extras on him.

So instead he gripped Silver Ebony tightly with one hand, and lowered his stance. He would have to cut them down the old fashioned way, or perhaps use his air or rock part of his semblance. He could use water, but that would require more concentration to get it out of the grass or plants around him.

He wasn't given any more time to think as he sensed one of the Beowolves behind him and to his right dig its claws into the ground and charge straight for him. Ripping the ground out as it did so with it's long talons.

It was on him in an instant, but he had the reflexes to react in time. He dodged the bite that might have taken off his head with a spin, and he jumped up and onto the monsters back. Slamming Silver Ebony all the way into the hilt through it's back, making it come out the other side covered in black blood. The Beowolf slumped over and turned to ash before it even hit the ground, but Kai flipped off of it before his feet touched the ground.

Like sonar, Kai landed on the ground and sensed all the other Beowolves pouncing to him. He turned his attention to the closest one, throwing a fist encased in air in it's direction. A rocket of air came flying out, pushing the Beowolf away into a nearby tree, stunning it for a few seconds.

During that time, Kai bent backwards to dodge the swipe attack from another Grimm behind him, and slashes his sword above his body, cutting off a few fingers off of the Beowolf, making it howl it's pain into the sky as Kai twirling back onto his feet and kicked the beast in the side of the knee, forcing it closer to the ground.

Before he could finish that one off however, his aura flared as he was caught in the back by a claw. Kai ignored the flash of pain and pushed forward with the momentum, jumping over an attempt to sweep his legs out from under him from the Grimm he nearly just killed. He jumped forward once, and twisted his foot once he landed to switch directions.

A pillar of stone rose out of the ground to block another powerful swipe from the attacking Beowolf. The monster snarled at Kai and tried to hit him with it's other paw, only for another stone pillar to be brought up at the same time. It then tried to rip it's claws back out from the stone, but quickly realized it's mistakes as it watched as the stone wrapped around the Grimm's claws, hardening and crushing it's paws in place. It howled in pain and tried to snap at Kai, but he jumped back before it could hit home.

The previously stunned Beowolf roared as it charged straight toward Kai, wrapping it's large arms around the boys waist as it slammed him up against the tree. Only to cough out black blood as it realized that Kai ran it's sword through its chest while it was charging, piercing through all of its organs and killing it instantly.

These things are a lot stronger than what I'm used to. Kai thought to himself as he coughed, catching his breath for a few moments before sensing around the area again.

There was still just the two left, one crippled along the ground crawling it's way toward him, and the one whose paws was currently stuck in two pillars of stones.

With a smirk, Kai noticed the opportunity, and took it. Silver Ebony glowed a bright white as it gripped the hilt with both hands, it grew longer and brighter the more his aura was absorbed into the weapon. With a yell, he swung his sword through the air, cutting the first Beowolf's head in half with the initial swing.

The arc of white light burned it's way through the second pinned Beowolf, both Grimm slumped to the ground with one last defiant growl, and died. Fading away into black ash as Kai stood up and sheathed Silver Ebony while it was still glowing.

He exhaled and turned his head to the right. Nothing was over just yet, he thought it was more Grimm, but instead he stood up straighter as he heard more sounds of fighting not too far away from him. It was faint, and no doubt at least hundred meters away. But as he focused, he could sense that this person actually wasn't having much trouble with whatever they were fighting.

"It's the only direction I got to go off of." Kai said with a shrug as he kept one hand on the hilt of his sword, and started making his way through the Emerald Forest.

His second initiation wasn't going too bad. So far...

Now let's play the little game called 'Who is going to be Kai's partner?' I can imagine a lot of you are going to make the same assumption, and I can't wait to see your guy's reaction to who does actually end up becoming his partner. Will it be Orchid? Ruby? Yang? Brick? Rick? Pyrrha? Weiss? CARDIN!? Or is it going to be a brand new OC that I'm just going to pull straight out of my ass? Who knows, besides myself?

I think I do… -CrowSkull

Excluding the one guy I tell my plans.

As you may have noticed, I may be making the Grimm a little more dangerous in the story. Since literally the only ones who are actually dangerous in the show are the crazy old and powerful ones. It's not really going to change much, but the Grimm being pushovers and weaklings isn't going to be a thing in this story.

I wanted to write more… but I am just so tired, this is one of my two off days this week, and I am going to take a nap for the rest of the day. Next chapter is where Initiation really kicks off, lets see if you all enjoy it.

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