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Ruby and Yang are readying themselves as Ren and an excited Nora walk by.
"Wonder what those two are so worked up about?" Ruby asked, loading Crescent Rose.
"Oh, who knows? So, you seem awfully chipper this morning!" Yang replied, glancing over to her sister.
"Yep! No more awkward small talk or 'getting-to-know-you' stuff. Today, I get to let my sweetheart do the talking," Ruby stated, stroking Crescent Rose and sighing happily.
"Well, remember, Ruby, you're not the only one going through initiation. If you wanna grow up, you're gonna have to meet new people and learn to work together,"
"You sound like Dad!" Ruby stated, sighing in frustration.
"Okay, first of all: What does meeting new people have to do with fighting? And secondly: I don't need people to help me grow up! I drink milk!" Ruby argued.
"But what about when we form teams?"
"Um, I don't know, I... I'll just be on your team or something..." Ruby replied, suddenly nervous.
"Maybe you should try being on someone else's team?" Yang suggested, bringing her hair around her shoulder and stroking it.
"My dear sister Yang, are you implying that you do not wish to be on the same team as me?" Ruby questioned.
"What? No! Of course, I do! I just thought... I don't know, maybe it would help you... break out of your shell!"
"What the-?! I don't need to 'break out of my shell'! That's absolute-" Ruby started. At this point, Onyx stopped listening to their conversation, as the two talkative Faunus he managed to get away from were approaching him again. Onyx sighed and quickly made his way out of the building, heading to where Ozpin told him to be, at the edge of Beacon Cliff.
Beacon Cliff, overlooking a forest, there were several students — some he knew, some he didn't, but all are standing on silver tiles in front of a mug-holding Professor Ozpin and Glynda with her tablet. Onyx stood on the first silver tile, watching the two closely.
"For years, you have trained to become warriors, and today, your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest," Ozpin spoke.
"Now, I'm sure many of you have heard rumors about the assignment of "teams." Well, allow us to put an end to your confusion. Each of you will be given teammates... today," Glynda stated, tapping something on her tablet.
"These teammates will be with you for the rest of your time here at Beacon. So it is in your best interest to be paired with someone with whom you can work well. That being said, the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next four years," Ozpin explained earning many groans in protest.
"After you've partnered up, make your 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. You will be monitored and graded through the duration of your initiation, but our instructors will not intervene. You will find an abandoned temple at the end of the path containing several relics. Each pair must choose one and return to the top of the cliff. We will regard that item, as well as your standing, and grade you appropriately. Are there any questions?" Ozpin asked, drinking from his cup.
"Yeah, um, sir?" Jaune asked, raising his hand.
"Good, Now, take your positions," Ozpin announced.
"Ozpin," Onyx stated, looking back to Ozpin, hearing clicking under his tile.
"Yes, Onyx?" Ozpin asked, smiling. Onyx was about to say something, but a loud whining sound erupted from under Onyx's tile as the metal struggled under his weight. Glynda sighed and pressed a button, making the tile stop.
"What is your goal with these tiles?" Onyx asked, watching Glynda turn a dial on her tablet all the way up.
"To launch you," Ozpin answered. Glynda pressed another button, and Onyx's tile clicked loudly. Onyx looked down at the tile in surprise before looking up at Ozpin.
"Wai-" Onyx was cut off as he was launched in the air. Onyx couldn't do much of anything except flail, as I'm sure you know; Deathclaws aren't very aerodynamic. Onyx slammed clumsily through trees. Onyx finally stopped as he got low enough and slammed into the ground. Onyx got up quickly, his pupils narrowing to thin slits. Onyx roared angrily, alerting some nearby Grimm.
Two Beowulf and an Ursa ran towards the pissed off Deathclaw. The Beowulf was almost immediately sliced in half, while the Ursa was thrown into a tree. Onyx charged at another Beowulf that was waiting in the bushes nearby. The Beowulf realized it was found and jumped aside, dodging Onyx's attack. The Beowulf jumped back, bit down into Onyx neck shook around, trying to tear at the flesh, but doing no damage as his scales smashed against the Beowulfs teeth. Onyx replied by grabbing the Beowulf by the head and ripping off his neck. Onyx easily crushed the Beowulfs head in his hand, much to the horror of other Grimm in the area.
Onyx switched from a bipedal defense stance to an offensive quadrupedal stance, charging at the Grimm around him. Onyx easily smashed two Beowulf into the ground and slashing at an Ursa, tearing half it's face off.
Onyx was suddenly thrown away by a strong creature. Onyx snapped up to see a much larger and seemingly more armored Beowulf. The Alpha Beowulf roared and charged at Onyx, who met the Alpha with force. Onyx howled in pain as the Beowulf hardened nails dug through his scales. Onyx clawed at the Beowulf armor, only managing to scratch them.
Onyx tackled the Alpha, trying to use blunt force to break its armor, to no avail. Onyx growled as the Beowulf dug its claws into his flesh. Onyx grabbed one of the Beowulf forelegs prying it out of his chest. As Onyx pulled the Beowulfs foreleg off of his chest, he felt the armor crack under the pressure of him squeezing it. Compression was the answer, all he needed to do was apply enough pressure for a sustained amount of time on a certain point and the armor should give.
Onyx used the one thing he knew would give enough pressure for the amount of time he needed, even though he hated using his jaws for attacking, as it left him open for any attacker that came up behind him. Onyx slammed his maw around the Armored Beowulf's neck and bit down, he felt the armor slowly crack underneath his teeth. The Beowulf roared in protest and clawed at Onyx, It's razor sharp nails tearing at his flesh.
Onyx finally felt the armor give way, his maw trying to slam shut. Onyx heard the armor church and crack as it crumbled under the pressure, his teeth sinking deeply into the Beowulf flesh, giving a sickly yet satisfying crunch. Onyx dropped the Beowulf from his maw as it slowly dissipated. Onyx looked around to see no more Grimm in the area, but as soon as he looked to his side, he saw the Faunus hater from the cafeteria. The human seemed to have just watched the whole fight, giving a sigh as their eyes met. The human smiled and approached Onyx.
"Did you just watch as I fought them?" Onyx growled.
"Quite the opposite my friend. I handled all of the other Grimm white you took care of the Alpha,"
"At least you aren't useless," Onyx replied, walking in the direction he thought the relics would be.
"Hey, at least tell me your name. My name is Silver,"
"The one thing I don't want to do right now is to be talking to you," Onyx spat.
"Okay, okay," Silver sighed. The next twenty minutes was hell for Onyx as he was met with a barrage of questions. They finally found a large opening into a field, where a structure held what looked like chess pieces. The two approached the structure and looked at the pieces.
"So, do your species have reproductive organs like humans or are they different?" Silver asked.
"How about I cut yours off and look for myself?" Onyx growled, annoyed at the constant questions.
"Jeez man, it's just a question,"
"We'll take this one," Onyx stated, picking up a black king and tossing it to Silver.
"Soo... What is your name?" Silver asked, pocketing the Chess piece.
"Onyx," Onyx growled, starting to walk back towards the forest.
"Finally, some answers!" Silver said happily. Onyx sighed and turned to Silver, walking up to him.
"If you are going to be my teammate, then I expect three things from you: One; The constant questioning needs to stop. Two; Don't be useless. Three; If you show any hate towards Faunus, I will gut you like a fish. Are we clear?"
"I guess so," Silver answered, nodding.
"Good," Onyx stated, looking back to see four people exiting the forest. Onyx recognized Yang, Percy, and Azure. Percy and Azure were both together, while Yang was with a person he didn't quite recognize.
"Hellooo, Onyx!" Yang yelled happily, walking up to him.
"You know him too?" Azure asked, looking at Yang.
"Yup,"
"Well... Its nice to meet you four. What's your names?" Silver asked politely.
"I'm Yang, this is Blake,"
"There is no way in hell we are giving you our names," Percy said, crossing his arms.
"Well. Firstly, I would like to apologize for my actions at the cafeteria. Secondly; My name is Silver, nice to meet you,"
"What did he do in the cafeteria?" Yang asked,confused.
"We are wasting time, let's hurry up," Onyx announced.
"Oh, right," Yang exclaimed, walking up to one if the relics and taking it, with Percy doing the same. Percy gave the relic to Azure to keep hold of, but as soon as he was about to speak, a scream come out of the forest.
"Some girl's in trouble! Blake, did you hear that?" Yang asked, but Blake doesn't answer, staring at something in the sky.
"Blake, did you hear that? What should we do?" Yang asked.
"Tend to your sister first," Onyx stated, now looking to the sky as well.
"Heads uuuuup!" Ruby yelled, falling quickly. Ruby was on course to collide with Yang, but was met with Jaune on the way down, causing them both to lose course and crash into a tree.
"Oohhhh... What was that?" Ruby whined, the dizziness passed when she shakes her head.
"Eh-hem! Hey, Ruby..." Jaune said, Ruby looked up to see Jaune hanging upside-down in a tree branch above her
"Did your sister just fall from the sky?" Blake asked.
Before she can answer, several crashing noises are heard in the forest ahead of them, and an Ursa comes out, claws swiping, just as a pink blast of energy hits it in the back and it crashes to the ground, depositing its rider.
" YEEEE-HAAAAW!" Nora yelled, rolling off of the now dead grimms back. "Awwww... It's broken," she dashes onto its neck and observes the carcass as Ren comes up behind her.
"Nora! Please... Don't ever do that again," Ren said, only followed by silence as Nora ran off.
"Hey, your the big guy from orientation!" Nora yelled, holding onto Onyx's arm as he lifted it up. Nora hung happily from Onyx's arm for a few moments, untill somthing else caught her attention.
"I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" Nora sung, holding up a chess peice
"Nora!" Ren yelled.
"Coming, Ren!" Nora stated, skipping over to him.
" Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?" Blake asked.
Yang is interrupted once more as a screech is heard from their right, and Pyrrha Nikos comes onto the scene as the scorpion creature uproots entire trees in its chase after her. Pyrrha narrowly dodges its giant claws and keeps on running.
"Jaune!" Phyrra yelled.
"Pyrrha!" Jaume yelled back.
" Whoa!" Ruby yelled as she starts running off of the branch and landing in a roll.
"Ruby!"Jaune whined.
"Ruby!" Yang yelled
"Yang!" Ruby raises her arms as if to give her sister a hug.
"Nora!" Nora comes between the two and knocking them off-balance in surprise The scorpion Grimm continues to follow Pyrrha as she runs.
"Did she just run all the way here with a Death Stalker on her tail?" Blake asked.
"I can't take it anymore! Can everyone just chill out for two seconds before something crazy happens again?!"Yang yelled angrily.
"No! Attack the damn deathstalker before your friend dies!" Onyx roared, charging at the Grimm.
"Oh, that's probably smart," Yang answered.
"Umm... Yang?" Ruby asked, tugging on her sisters sleeve. Up above, Weiss is revealed to be hanging on a talon the size of her entire body that belongs to a gigantic Nevermore.
"How could you leave me?!" Weiss yelled to Ruby
"I said "jump"!" Ruby yelled back.
" She's gonna fall." Blake stated.
"She'll be fine." Ruby answered.
"She's falling." Ren said. Jaune is finally out of the tree, panting until he looks up and grins at the sight of Weiss falling through the air, giving him the opportunity to jump off the branch with arms outstretched and catch her in a moment.
"Just... dropping in?"Jaune smiled. Weiss is speechless... and Jaune realizes why when they both look down.
" Oh, God." Jaune whined, they hang on to each other wide-eyed as their moment of suspension ends, their weapons flying behind them. Jaune does a faceplant into the dirt, limbs splayed out, and serves as the perfect landing spot for Weiss as she falls into a seated position on his body.
" My hero." Weiss mocked.
" My back..." Jaune groaned. The Death Stalker is still hunting Pyrrha, but she manages to land on her side at the feet of the heroes.
"Great! The gang's all here! Now we can die together!" Yang exclaimed.
"Not if I can help it!" Runy yelled as she sounds a battle cry and rushes towards the Grimm
"Ruby, wait!" Yang yelled. Ruby, still screaming, fires Crescent Rose and charges at the oncoming Death Stalker. When the two meet, the Grimm swipes Ruby away and she is knocked back.
"D-Do-Don't worry! Totally fine!" Ruby argued, getting up slowly. Ruby turns back to the monster and shoots it in the skull, running away from it and sheathing her scythe as the Death Stalker now goes after her.
"Ruby!" Yang yelled, running towards Ruby. Ruby rushes towards Yang, but the Nevermore caws above them, flapping its wings and releasing lines of sharpened feathers with points that catch on Ruby's cape and prevent Yang from reaching her.
"Ruby, get out of there!" Yang yelled
"I'm trying!" Ruby yelled, struggling with her cape. The Death Stalker approaches, raising its golden stinger above a scared Ruby and heading down on the helpless girl.
"Ruby!" Yang yelled, reaching out in vain.
The deathstalker swung its stinger down, but as Ruby squeezed her eyes shut, she heard a crunch as the stinger stopped. Ruby looked up to see Onyx holding the stinger, him slowly slipping backwards as the deathstalker pushed.
Ruby finnaly got her cape unstuck as the stinger slipped from Onyx's grasp, embedding itself in his chest. Onyx roared as the deathstalker flung its tail back up, throwing Onyx off of its tail and across the forest.