As Emily, Taylor and Sora made there way to the cliffside they were briefly stopped by a short timid man who looked like he was in his mid forties or late thirties. With short orangey blonde hair, glasses and a very polished handlebar mustache looking very weak and timid as he spoke in quite the friendly manner.
"Ah. Hello there you two and Sora. I do hope that you three perform greatly today"
Emily and Taylor had looked at the person with a slightly confused look at the person as Sora gave him a nod in agreement before continuing to head to the cliffside yet Emily had decided not to bring up as the little ran in seeing how the trio was running a little late but had thankfully made it and found spots to the right side of where Ozpin was at, as he continued to give details about the initiation.
"Our Instructors will not assist you in a way as they will be judging your progress in fact the first person you meet once in the forest will be your partner for the next four years."
Once hearing this revelation Emily was very surprised as she looked around at the others gauging there reactions as she had seen the girl with black hair and red highlights yell out quite loud "WHAT!." She was very surprised by it but a few others had more laid back reactions as the Ozpin waited to continue to talk. Yet once he began to continue talking he decided to give instructions on what to do.
"Once you have landed using your own landing strategy and meet your potential partners everyone will make there way to the northern end of the forest. You will meet opposition along the way. Do not hesitate to destroy everything in your path... or you will die. Now any questions?"
Ozpin had asked before taking a little drink of his warm coffee. As a student raised his hand it was swiftly met by Ozpin saying "Good, Now take your positions"
Emily had quickly pulled out her weapons which were duel axe shotguns called hearts embrace as she made sure the blades were sharpened at the same time another student checked her gun before placing it on her lower back as she then let her wings stretch out as Emily quietly commented to herself "clearly she doesn't have to worry about her landing strategy"
At the same time Taylor had pulled out his sword from a rather interesting place, his cane as his graze meet Sora's and he nodded to her before speaking in a rather ridiculous tone.
"Now m'lady you're about to witness Atlas' finest in a front row seat. I suggest you sit back and watch"
"Am I going to have to waste an arrow just to freeze you somewhere in the forest or later"
Sora had replied with a little eye roll as she looked up at the sky seeing it was a very Sunny day with few clouds dotting the bright blue sky as she felt oddly nervous and uneasy as there was a sudden loud noise. That sounded like an air piston firing up as a student got launched into the sky as others were randomly launched. However there was two students that stood out, one was a blonde who had looked at Ozpin and started to ask some rather dumb questions and the other student, whom had stepped off the launching pads and walked over to the cliff edge With her wings being show and spoke with a very prideful tone.
'One of the biggest advantages I have is that I don't need to be launched off a cliff as i can do this."
The student said before jumping off the cliff edge, most of the students were shocked until she flew back up, letting her purplish red wings be seen before flying away. Most of the students who haven't launched yet look shocked as Ozpin just stood there, sipping his coffee like nothing had happened, Clearly he seemed unfazed by the surprise.
Of course shortly after that Emily was launched followed by sora a few minutes later who had already gotten her weapon ready for her landing strategy now was just a waiting game to get close to the ground.
Taylor had managed to land but he was a little dazed as he had a rather bad landing strategy as he had a picture a rather creative landing strategy as he had decided to put away his sword and used it to catch himself on a tree branch as he felt, even though it seemed like a possible idea when it came time to execute it ended poorly as he didn't lock in his sword properly causing it to slide out and thus resulting in him falling ten feet onto the ground with a hard thud.
"Ugh.. clearly i had better… ideas"
Taylor said as he began to slowly get up as he presented to dust himself off yet he couldn't help but feel a slight pain coming from his right side which caused him to slightly stagger but he managed to stand up.
"Right that was a horrible mistake"
He only said to himself as he began to head to the east, since he thought that was the way to go. Of course during his short walk he heard gunfire ringing out from seemingly every direction. Seemingly he continued yet had his guns drawn out to shoot possible Grimm. Yet thankfully he didn't see grimm however he heard a loud scream which prompted him to automatically shot his gun without warning prompting a rather feminine voice to yell out
"HEY ASSHOLE! WATCH WHERE YOUR FIRING. YOU NEARLY HIT ME AND MY HAT"
the voice said before landing right in front of him with a three point pose as her hat almost fell to the ground yet before it did she caught it. Then once she had placed it onto her head she looked at Taylor with a burning look of an annoyance at him.
"Mind telling me why you decide to blindly fire?"
The woman said looking at Taylor unhappily as he replied with a rather flat answer. As they were engaged in a tense showdown as Taylor kindly explained
"Well i heard a scream and I thought someone was injured or in trouble. Besides, I recommend you move out of the way"
He asked nicely before drawing out his dual pearl white M1911 pistols promoting the woman to get in a defensive position however it didn't last long as a low yet thunderous roar was heard prompting the woman to quickly change positions and fly up into the air, as a Beowulf made his presence known allowing Taylor to make a small quip to it.
"Well now aren't you an awful sight for sore eyes"
He said with a slight smirk as he let the Beowulf charge at him, almost waiting for it to draw closer as he placed one of his guns into his holster and started to grab his cane. Until the woman flew down. Crushing right onto the Beowulf as she was sparking brown lightning as she had also landed once again three point pose, leaving Taylor looking at her.
"Great show miss although going back on our other topic. I heard a scream and thought someone was in trouble of being attacked by a grimm although."
He walked over to the woman and reached out to her, offering her a hand as he gently nodded to her too seemingly trying to a gentleman.
"We have unfortunately gotten off on the wrong footing miss, i am Taylor Von blanc of Atlas and yourself?"
The woman looked at Taylor before sighting as she accepted the hand up and spoke in a slightly relaxed yet tense manner.
"Layla Aka-Murasaki. I'm from Menagerie.. if you do actually care"
Taylor looked at Layla a little surprised and almost taken back as he was unsure if he had offended her again and looked at her with a rather confused look.
"What? Do I have to make it absurdly clear! I'm a bird faunus from Menagerie, your probably some pompous atlas general son for all i know"
Taylor looked at Layla right in the eyes as there was an unknown feeling of tension hanging in the air until he chuckled in a friendly manner causing the tension to quickly vanish away seemingly in a heartbeat as he spoke.
"Well not really although I would be happy to inform you if you want to tag along to the place where all the first year's are heading?"
Taylor had asked layla whom simply nodded as she decided to simply walk for a switch seeing how flying was pointless as she didn't admit it but he had grace her one wing slightly.
There was a sudden thud that echoed around the forest slightly as Sora started to carefully dust herself off and made sure her weapon was alright. She had a slight rough landing but it wasn't the thud she had just heard as everything in the emerald forest that was around her felt uncomfortable quiet. A little bit too quiet for her liking yet thankful she heard the sound of fighting happening but it was quite far away from her she judged before quietly humming to herself as she carefully got her weapon ready just in case of a sudden attack and slowly beginning to move through the forest making sure she listened carefully to any noises in case there was trouble.
Only after a few minutes of walking there was a noise, She quickly readies an arrow to fire yet before she does she carefully looks around her current position as both sides were covered with bushes, not a very good thing for a lone student as she felt an odd feeling of dread fall upon her.
"Alrighty just remain calm and cool, Sora you can easily handle a lone Beowulf as you defend one before.'
She said quietly talking to herself as she was walking through the shade that was being provided by the trees in the emerald forest. Yet as she continued to walk the brushes shake more until a few deafening gunshots ring out which prompted sora to quickly look for where the shooting was happening. As she decided to poke her head through the right side of the Bushes and quickly looked around the seemingly small yet quite open area as the sun shined through the eerily quiet scene as she saw something black and bleeding. So she decided to slowly walk over.
"Hello there? Are you, WHOA"
She said quickly readying her weapon to shoot as the thing happened to be a wounded Beowulf which went to attack her by using its long, sharp claws until it let out a howling cry of pain and fell to the ground as there was an axe thrown into its back which was the killing blow. As it left sora looking quite surprised as she felt a chill run down her spine as the air seemingly got colder as she felt like she was being watched by someone or something causing her to zone out slightly thinking.
"It can't be NO sora, they can't get involved in this so don't worry. Just relax please, you can question them later."
She was still zoned out until she felt a slight tap on her shoulder which snapped her back into seemingly reality as she heard a voice that seemed familiar to her.
"Uh Sora… remnant to Sora, are you alright? As i didn't realize you were close by"
As sora came back to her scenes she had seen a student whom she easily recognized from earlier today, although much to her surprise she hadn't seen the other person to whom was with her.
"Uh sorry there Emily i uh zoned out slightly although was that you shooting that grimm?"
She asked Emily as she began to regain her slight poser as she had looked at the slightly shorter member as she explained how she had used her axes to assist her with her landing strategy which resulted in her meeting a few Beowulf's that were disposed of. Yet Sora couldn't help but think to herself as something had dawned upon her which seemingly had also done on emily as they both spoke in a seemingly at once.
"You haven't ran into anyone else yet have you?."
Once they realized they said the same thing they had a quick laugh as Emily looked at Sora with a little bit of a smile.
"Well in all honesty you were one of the few people who I was hoping to run into as you as I want to know a little bit about that person who seemingly knew you?"
Sora looked at Emily and had thought about being honest but decided against it as she didn't want to have people knowing yet as she decided to reply in a slightly vague manner.
"Well emily you will know soon enough although let's focus on getting to the ruins and returning to the academy soon please as I happen to know a quick way there."
She said before turning around and starting to walk to her seed shortcut leaving Emily slightly confused yet she snapped out of after hearing sora yell at her.
"Emily! Are you coming today or what?"
"I'm coming please wait up"
She replied in a slight rushed tone of voice as she raced to catch up with Sora, Her soon to be partner too.
(The end Of Chapter Two)