Back at the school's cliffsides everything was seemingly quiet saved for the headmaster who was seemingly watching everything from his tablet since unknowingly to the students drones were secretly recording there progress as he had his usual mug of hot chocolate in his other hand as a teacher walked over to him, looking mildly concerned.

"I don't care what his papers say mr. Arc hasn't impressed me nor that one student deciding to just jump off the cliffside"

She said with an annoyed look on her face as Ozpin didn't seem to pay attention due to watching two different pairs of students. One pair was Ruby Rose and Weiss schnee who where seemingly in the middle of an argument yet the other pair was lead by a rather annoyed layla Aka-murasaki as Taylor von blanc followed shortly behind her chatting away in what seemed like a rather one sided conversation. Yet Ozpin looked at his tablet with a blank look on his face yet internally he was a little amused. Layla and Taylor to spite there rocky first encounter where closing in on the chest pieces as ruby and weiss were seemingly moving farther away from their targeted goal.

He would have chuckled slightly if he didn't scramble to not drop the tablet as he was unexpectedly patted on the back from a short 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. Yet he seemed to be more awake and less timid

"Ah Ozpin how is the initiation going and more importantly, her involvement, has she found a partner yet?'

The man said looking at Ozpin, because the man semblance wasn't activated he had to look slightly up. As Ozpin looked down at him before speaking in a rather claim relaxed manner.

"She has alrighty found someone to partner with as there one of the few groups of students who are closing in on the checkpoint. Oh?"

He said checking his tablet which gave him a surprised look on his face as he closed out ruby weiss heated debate to fully bring up layla and Taylor to show the person. With an expressionless look on his face before drinking some hot chocolate.

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As Layla flew slightly ahead of Taylor whom had stopped briefly to activate his semblance, his semblance was of course an interesting one as he was a healer, although it would cause him to be stuck in one place briefly unable to defend himself, although the pair seemed to be doing better than when they had their first encounter roughly a half hour ago there brief would be ruined as Layla stopped dead in her tracks, quickly turning to face Taylor.

"Uh hey ... did you hear something?"

She began to look around in a slight panic as Taylor just gave her a blank look and chuckled in a jovial manner before speaking to Layla.

"Now my lady you do realize that we're in a forest that has a bunch of students and grimm trying yet horribly to kill us, plus too there natural life as well. So it was probably a bird.. err an actual one not uh you"

She had rolled her eyes at the remark yet unsure if she should start another argument with him or just let it be fine. The thought stir in her head until the sudden creaking noise snapped her out of her thoughts as the noise was very close to them, a little bit too close for her own comfort. She turned to look at Taylor and looked directly in his eyes

"On the count of three we push out and ready to attack? Got it?"

Taylor was going to say something but decided against it seeing how she had already formed a plan and ready and had already decided to not get himself involved with the plan as she began to count down

"Three.Two...one!"

Taylor watched as Layla jumped out from her spot and landed headfirst on the ground as the source of the noise wasn't a grimm rather it was two familiar faces they knew a little bit about since they had just met in the morning. There was a slightly awkward feeling in the air as no one spoke until the silence was broken.

"Uh hello there Layla, i see you alright have meet your uh partner alrighty"

The voice belonged to Sora Giallo who had stuck out a hand to assist the slightly dazed and a little confused Layla up as Emily went to go see Taylor looking a little happy.

"Well it's nice to see you after a few hours and wait your partner i guess"

She said as she checked her weapons as Taylor got the chance to have a quick look at them, as they were dual axes with what looked like triggers close by the bottom of the handle which was a midnight black with a faint yellow glow as they stood out nicely to which he had spoken after realizing that Emily was looking at him.

"I do say, you're weapons are quite common to see"

Before she could reply Sora had helped up layla and the pair had looked over at Taylor and Emily with a little bit of a smile.

"I hate to break up this little show and tell but we're kinda on a mission and we're close to the objective point"

Of course as Sora said it she pointed to the place which was an unusually placed temple which had objects placed around it. Layla had already started to head over to the temple leaving Taylor, Emily and Sora to catch up to her. The main reason why Layla went to look was because she was curious about what the thing was that they were expecting to get. But when she had arrived at the temple she looked around oddly confused before turning around to face Sora, Taylor and Emily quickly sprinting over to catch up as she then spoke in a flat tone.

"Chess pieces! He sent us into a forest filled with Grimm just so we could get chess pieces for him!"

Layla said in a very annoyed term as Sora and Taylor both looked over at the pieces noticing a few where alrighty taken as Emily spoke up towards Layla.

"Well look on the bright side it could be worse as we could have been hunting down grimm that were specially marked."

Emily said to lighten up layla a little bit as she looked unamused by her comment as Sora and Taylor were quietly chatting among themselves as they have seemingly came to a conclusion before turning around to face Emily and Layla.

"We are going to be taking the Black Knight pieces. As there seems to be enough for four people."

Emily went over to get her piece as Layla also got hers with a little under the breath complaining about how the chess pieces seemed quite unusual. Yet kept her complaints to herself as she walked over to the group, who were preparing to make the return journey to the school. As she stretched out her wings somewhat in a sore way as Sora looked at her and said.

"Uh are you sure you're going to fly back to the academy? As it would seem safer to walk in a group."

Of course Layla rolled her eyes slightly she was used to flying since it was a time saver for her and replied.

"Im sure I will be alright besides worse case scenario is that I have to land."

She then took off and started to fly through the air as the others began to head back. The walk back to the school was seemingly uneventful for the most part of the walk until they arrived at the courtyard to the academy where they had decided to wait for Layla to return as by now a good portion of the first years were slowly making their way back as Taylor looked Emily.

"So much for air travel being the faster method. I swear she should have walked it would have saved her plenty of time"

Taylor said as he tapped his foot by the fountain waiting. He didn't want to admit it that he was injured yet to them as they waited for Layla to arrive. Yet he didn't need to wait awhile as he felt a sharp tap to his shoulder as he at first brush it off as either Sora or Emily trying to perhaps fool around yet they were ahead of him seemingly heading into the academy yet as he was about to he got spun around and face Layla's unhappy face as she looked at him and spoke in a rather cold tone.

"Perhaps if you where you actually take the time to look around you would have seen me sitting on a bench! Now let's head inside"

With that said and without giving Taylor anytime to react Layla had decided to pinch his ear to drag him into the academy as they both headed to the auditorium. As they had to quickly find a place to sit down at as it seemed like there weren't many first years as there were only two teams formed when Ozpin made the next call up for the team.

"Would the following students please step onto the stage now? Sora Giallo, Taylor Von Blanc, Layla Aka-murasaki and Emily Rosa"

As he spoke the four students quietly yet quickly headed to the stage as they did there pictures appeared on the few TV's set up in the room as Ozpin wait for them to get in a row before coming with his talk.

"You four collected the Black Knight pieces. As of this day for the next four years your team will officially be called Team STAR.'

As he said the team name there pictures were first showing how they had gotten the name STAR before showing the partners which where Sora Giallo And Emily Rosa with Taylor and Layla being the other two. Of course Layla tried to hide her disappointment from Ozpin and the others as he started to speak again.

"You four will be lead by Sora Giallo. Congratulations young lady this should be proud of this moment."

Ozpin had said among the clapping that was happening Sora had zoned out. She was surprised by this as she honestly wasn't expecting this as she started to feel worried unknowingly to her two teachers were also watching along and clapping in honor of her and the newly made team. Yet as the clapping died down The newly formed team STAR stayed on the stage until they were politely shown to the stairs since they had to make way for the next team to go on stage which was an all male team called team CRDL which was lead by a man called Cardin Winchester, yet once they were done clapping they wasted little time in getting off the stage.

"Would the following students please come up now Ruby Rose, Weiss schnee, Blake belladonna and Yang xiao Long" Ozpin called out as Taylor whisper quietly to himself in a slight disappointing tone "an schnee in beacon academy. What a surprise" he said as he watched from his set as the four female's got told their team name and leader, Team RWBY to be lead by Ruby Rose. Of course everyone clapped for them besides Layla who looked at Emily and whisper quietly to her. "Isn't there leader a bit young to be here?."

Emily looked at her and shrugged since she really didn't know as the rest of star clapped for their fellow classmates as the final team stepped up and was announced to be Team JNPR lead by jaune arc. Once everyone had their teams Ozpin stepped back over to the mic and started to speak.

"Now that you all have your teams everyone is now allowed to head to your new dorms,but bear in mind that classes will not happen till Monday so you all have tomorrow and the weekend to learn where you're classes are. Whose teaching them and possibly your teammates"

Adpon that Ozpin left the stage allowing the students to go dorms where some went to start unpacking their things and decorate their dorms as others decided to break the ice with their newly acquired teammates as a few, including team star entered there dorm and headed to sleep, Nothing was said about Taylor and Layla little stand off nor was anything sad about Emily and Layla's chat.

The end

(Authors note: This chapter was supposed to be longer as it would have explored beacon's hallways, classrooms and teachers. However it felt quite disconnected from the into the emerald forest plot so it's going to be covered next. )