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'Thoughts'

"emphasis and scroll"

"Talking"

"Anger"

General POV

With RW _ _

Weiss Schnee deflected the swipe from an oncoming Beowolf with her rapier and getting pushed back into the middle of the approaching pack. Unfortunately for her, between witnessing the 'death' of her partner's brother and said partner not being up to her personal standards, she was having difficulty concentrating. She holds out her sword as she goes through her dueling motions and tries to regain her composure.

'Get your head out of the clouds Weiss, you can't let those dolts get to you. Now, 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...' She adjusts her stance as she thinks, finally bringing her rapier up, the revolver spinning. 'Now!'

Weiss dashes forward with her loaded weapon at the Beowolf in front of her, just when Ruby suddenly appears between the two in a blur of rose petals, and with a swipe from her scythe attacks but the Alpha dodges without looking and growls at the girl. "Gotch- ah,crap."

Weiss widens her eyes and screams as she quickly has to stop, swinging the sword in a random direction and creating a line of fire that sets a nearby tree ablaze.

Ruby, distracted by Weiss' mess-up, just then notices a pair of Beowolves preparing to attack. She changes her weapon into its compact form, jumps up to dodge their strike and as they miss she smirks as she tries out one of the upgrades that her brother suggested. She clicks a button on the side while still in the air as her weapon begins to shift. When it finishes its transformation to form a large scythe that has a blade on both ends, by this point one end of the blade is approaching the Grimm's throat while the second blade nears the other Beowolf. Her smile widened as she pulled the trigger as a shot came out from the back of each blade, the recoil made Cresent Rose spin like a helicopter blade as it decapitated the two and while not intentional, bullets it fired hit two other Grimm.

She looks over to her reluctant partner and runs up to her to give her a helping hand, "Hey, are you alright?"

Weiss slaps Ruby's hand away and berates the girl, "Excuse me! You attacked out of turn! I could have killed you!"

"You'll have to try a lot harder than that..." Ruby says under her breath in protest while pouting, but felt impish when she thought about how Weiss would react to her 'party trick' as her brother calls it.

The duo wield their arms as the pack of Beowolves circle around them as the largest one howls for back up. Ruby reloads her scythe just as a burning tree falls near them, as that happens they begin to notice that the fire is starting to spread out of control.

Ruby was about to use her semblance to get them both out of there when Weiss grabs Ruby's arm. "We have to go!" She says as she pulls her partner away.

She drags Ruby out of the blaze as it engulfs the grass and sets the Grimm to stop pursuing the girls or suffer in the fire.

Ruby and Weiss stop when they get a safe way away from the smoke and flames. Weiss leans over and pants as Ruby looks behind her.

"What was that?! That should've been easy!" Ruby starts an argument.

"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 refutes.

Ruby scoffs. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"I'm just surprised someone who talks so much would communicate so little during an encounter!" Says Weiss.

"Hey, we haven't even been together a full day and besides, you don't always have a choice but to act! I'm sorry you need my help to win a fight. I'm just fine on my own!" Says Ruby.

"Well, congratulations on being the strongest child to sneak your way into Beacon. Grow up!" Says Weiss.

Ruby starts to feel that the crabby white girl is pushing her a bit too far, 'Like you're one to talk about growing up, bug bites.' She mocked the girl in her mind.

Weiss begins to walk off on her partner yet again. Ruby, with an agitated shriek, unfolds Crescent Rose, slices a tree down to the stump, refolds it back, and follows her partner as the tree crashes behind her. Neither notice the large dark feather floating onto the fallen trunk behind them.

Meanwhile, across the Forest, Pyrrha was making her way through the bushes with her unconscious partner in tow. She was going to keep moving forward when she felt 'Roy' starting to move. He opened his eyes, looking into her hazel eyes as their faces were an inch apart. Pyrrha's face heated up and she began to blush and seeing her get embarrassed made 'Roy' start feeling the same, he was about to say something when she suddenly dropped him on his ass to cover her face. While mumbling, "So close."

When Pyrrha heard the thud she turned her head and winced, "I am so sorry! Are you alright?"

'Roy' cracked his neck, patted himself down while he dusted himself off and told her, "Well nothing is broken, I still have my hats somehow and I'm now partnered with a decent human being that can handle herself. So yeah, I'd say that I'm doing pretty well. How about you? You did carry me quite a ways away." While he said that in a calm way, he was sweating internally. 'Damn, if I'm partnered with her then that means she didn't rescue Jaune. Not that I don't like Pyrrha, quite the opposite really, but that means he's either dead or injured... But most likely dead. If that's the case, getting to Atlas will be a lot harder without his sister's help. This could be bad."

Pyrrha calmed down and said, "I'm doing splendid. But forgive me for asking but how are you still..."

'Roy' sighed and said, "You show me yours, I'll show you mine?"

Pyrrha immediately started to get a small nosebleed and 'Roy' saw that he got the reaction he was hoping for, he smirked and said, "You do know I was talking about our semblances, right?"

She fake coughed into her hand while wiping her nose and said, "Yes, sure, but how about we just talk about them? It'll be easier to pass the time on our way to the temple." 'Roy' said he was fine with it as Pyrrha spoke up, "Very well, I'll start. As you've guessed earlier my semblance lets me manipulate most metals, but the part you didn't guess was that I can manipulate other forms of matter... Metal just happens to be the easiest, but easiest element to control is sulfur. If it's in my line of sight or I can touch it, then I can control it."

'Roy' stopped and just looked at her wide eyed in thought, 'This girl... Damn, if her eyes weren't proof enough then this certainly is, things really are different if her semblance is like a mini Overhaul.' He regained his composure and asked, "How do you use it? I mean, aside from altering yours or your opponent's weapon."

"Smart of you to pick on that. Aside from that, I can use it to heal major injuries, though the downside is that it consumes too much aura and physical stamina. I like to call it 'Architect'. What's with that look?"

Pyrrha was stared at 'Roy', who was made the cringe face you'd see on 'Soul Eater' whenever Excalibur was brought up, "I-it's nothing, it's just that the name is a little... bland? It kinda sounds like something you'd use for house renovations."

Pyrrha narrows her eyes at him, while feeling a little offended because she DID come with the name helping her mother renovate the house, "Alright, then what would you call it?"

'Roy' scratches the back of his neck nervously and says, "Edit, Terra-forming,... Overhaul?"

The red head was giving him a doubtful look when he heard a snoring sound followed by a strained whisper for help, "Do you hear that?"

Pyrrha takes her eyes off him for a moment to listen, "Yes, it's coming from over there."

They walk towards where they heard the sound come from with 'Roy' in the front, meanwhile Pyrrha was left thinking to herself, 'Hmmm... Overhaul, huh? It does sound like a good name, maybe I coul-... Oh my..."

"Psst, over here."

As they went through the bushes they saw something that made them confused as to whether they should laugh or panic. Pyrrha was making that barely audible hyena sound she makes when she tries not to laugh. Jaune in the most unusual positions imaginable.

He gave the pair a flat look and said, "Take a picture, it'll last longer." To which was taken seriously by 'Roy'.

In front of the two was a sleeping Ursa Major that was cuddling a Jaune Arc. He had a black eye swollen shut, a missing shoe, and was soaking wet. Jaune looked at them and turned to a pleading look as he whispered, "Shut. Up. And. Help. Me."

Pyrrha whispers to 'Roy', "You got any ideas?"

Whatever 'Roy' was cut off by a certain living lightning bolt yelling, "REN COME LOOK AT THIS! SOME GUY'S SPOONING WITH A URSA!"

When Nora Valkyrie Yelled that the Ursa let go and turned its attention to her. Just them Ren came in walking through the bushes, "Nora, Ursa don't-... Oh."

Nora turns to Ren, smiling like an ax murderer, and says, "REN, I GOT A PLAN!"

Jaune gets up and immediately starts running away while screaming like a stereotypical little girl towards a nearby cave as Pyrrha (followed by 'Roy') runs after him as she shouts, "Jaune, don't go in there you don't know what could be-!"

Meanwhile in the cave

"That's the relic!" Jaune assumes as he slowly reaches out to grab it, but it moves away from his swipe. "Hey! Bad... relic!" He tries to get it again, then jumps forward and hangs onto it as the object raises him above the ground. "Gotcha!" Jaune's catch lowers itself so he is dangling right in front of the now-glowing red lines and eyes of a Death Stalker. Jaune screams so loudly for the third time that day it can be heard from the temple.

With Blake and Yang

"Some girl's in trouble! Blake, did you hear that?" Yang asks her partner.

Blake doesn't answer, staring at something in the sky.

Meanwhile Blake is still staring at something above them, but Yang is focused on the forest.

"Blake, did you hear that?" Yang turns to her partner. "What should we do?"

Finally, the faint-but-growing-louder scream of "Heads uuuuuuuup!" is heard as Ruby is shown falling from the sky.

With 'Roy' and Pyrrha

At the cave entrance, 'Roy' Pyrrha jumps to the side and out of the way right before the monster crashes through the hole, roaring and waving its grass-encrusted claws as Jaune hangs from the stinger, calling from help and continuing to scream.

"Help! Whoa-ah-ah-ah-ah! Why?! Troy! Pyrrha! He-e-e-elp! For love of god help me! This is not the relic! It's not!" Jaune sobs. "Do something!"

Pyrrha is wielding her spear in front of the creature. "Jaune! Whatever you do, don't let-…"

Before she can finish, the Grimm hurls its tail back and launches a still-screaming Jaune across the forest as she watches in dismay.

"...go-Oh crap." Pyrrha ends her sentence and looks to 'Roy' "I don't suppose you have any idea on how to handle this do you? And before you ask, no, my semblance does not work on Grimm."

"Just one, but it's not very creative." 'Roy' picks Pyrrha up, throws her over his shoulder like a sack of potato and turns around and yells, "NIGERUNDAYO!"

With that said, he ran like hell to where Jaune landed and thought, 'Looks like I can cross that off my bucket list.'

With the Teachers

Ozpin and Pitch had finally cooled down after an hour of shouting. Right now, Professor Ozpin can be seen watching the students on his Scroll from the top of Beacon Cliff while overlooking the Emerald Forest with Pitch standing three meters away in the shade under a nearby tree with his arms crossed and scowling at the wizard. That was when Professor Goodwitch came walking past Pitch and to Ozpin's side, holding her own tablet.

"Our last pair has been formed, sir." Glynda taps her scroll to show Pyrrha and 'Roy'. This got the returning teacher's attention, he pushed himself off the tree as he began to walk next to Glynda to look at the tablet.

"Pyrrha Nikos and a Dusty Rose. Unfortunately for Mister Arc, he appears to have gotten himself into quite the bind. I've never seen someone take on such a string of bad luck that you'd think Qrow was here. He threw up on the airships, crashed into a river, sat on a porcupine, a bird pooped on him, and spooned with an Ursa... Oh, wait, looks he was just flung by an Ancient Deathstalker. Poor boy... I can't possibly imagine him lasting long in this line of work. Still, it's surprising that he has lasted this long. Oh, no Deathstalker is after Mister Rose and Miss Nikos..." She changes the scroll to follow Pyrrha and Jaune trek through the woods.

"Mmmm..." Ozpin raises an eyebrow.

"I don't care what his transcripts say. That Jaune fellow is not ready for this level of combat. I guess it's a good thing Pitch will be the one to whip him into shape." Goodwitch deactivated her scroll, walking back a little.

"I guess we'll find out soon enough. At their current pace, they should reach the temple within just a few minutes." Goodwitch turned back to him, "What did you use as relics this year?" To which Ozpin doesn't respond.

"Professor Ozpin?" Glynda tries to get his attention. She rolled her eyes and sighs in exasperation, 'Looks like he's having one of THOSE days... I'm not going to get anything out of him. It's strange though, Pyrrha reminds me of someone, that laugh of hers gives me the eeriest sense of Deja Vu. It's like the answer is staring me right in the face. Oh well, might well get something out of Pitch.'

She was about to turn around when she heard a familiar squeaking sound, she turned towards the source of the noise and remembered where she heard that laugh before. What she saw and heard was Pitch trying to hold in his laughter. The only people who knew this little fact about Pitch were his close friends. It was the fact that whenever he tried to keep himself from laughing it sounded like a hyena. Slipped away slowly to take a closer look at the young redhead's file and hopefully satisfy her curiosity.

Meanwhile, Pitch continued to 'hide' his laughter at what he just heard. 'His NAME is DUSTY Rose!? Bahahahaha, oh this is gold. I can't wait to rub "Roy's" nose in it.' As he thinks of this a picture of a certain dark wizard with a large sliver pompadour pops into his head and he chooses to leave. 'I've seen all I need to see.'

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