It felt…. Cold. I couldn't move as I found myself in a familiar room. A room that I hated to see in my dreams. The same room where my life ended and my new life began. Where I couldn't do anything to help her. The room felt dead cold as I stood in front of the closet where I hid. I get weight of guilt as I looked at the closet. I wanted to do something but…

My hands started to tremble as tears began to drip down my face. I couldn't do anything….

An ear piercing scream echoed through the quiet home which brought me out of my thoughts. I winced at the sound and turned to face the bed. What I saw would haunt me till the end of time. A dark red pool of blood dripped down to my feet as the cold, lifeless body of my mom sat in front of me. My hands started to shake again as I reached down and put a hand on her face.

With tears streaming down my face, I held her in my arms hugged her too my chest. I began muttering something that I couldn't even hear. Why'd this happen… what drove those people to do what they did? I didn't dwell on why they did what they did for long as I pulled away from my mother and ran a hand through her hair. "I'm so sorry mom…."

But as I began to pull away from my mom, the cold, dead, hands of my mother latched onto my arm. Fear began to shoot through my mind as the once dead body began to raise up. Her skin turned a sickly pale and her veins began to turn into an inky black color that showed through her skin. Her eyes opened to reveal sickly blood red eyes that stared into my soul. She opened her mouth and gave a horrifying screech that shook me to the core. I pulled out of her grasp and began to back away in fear as my mother's eyes began to cry tears of blood as she began to crawl to me.

"Why!? Why didn't save your own mother!? You left me to die!" She exclaimed in pure rage. I began to shake my head in response because I was too scared to speak. I pressed my back up against the closet as whatever my mom had turned into began to crawl her way too me. When she got too me she raised a clawed hand high into the air and brought it down to my heart. But before the claw hit-

I woke up.

I woke up with a jolt as I began too look around frantically. I was no longer in the bedroom, but the ballroom of Beacon Academy. My head pulsed in pain as I pressed my hand against my head. It was covered in sweat and I began breathing in an out. As I looked around, I realized that it was still dark out, probably around 3 AM at the most. I quickly scooted out of my sleeping bag and pressed my head against the wall.

There's no chance in hell I'm going to sleep after that. I sat in my corner while glancing at the two sleeping bags beside me. Yang was snoring like a boar, which was another reason why I went to sleep before the two girls. I glanced to Ruby and saw her bag in a very…. Odd position. Ruby was somewhat inside her bag, but her head was inside the bag and her lower half was out of the bag.

How even….? I decided to ignore the matter as I looked up to the ceiling and sighed. What in the world was that dream. It was horrifying but it felt real…. What happened? As I closed my eyes I couldn't enter dream land. Instead I decided too open my stats and see if anything needed to be fixed or increased. "Stats."

[Name]: Robin Redwood

[Species]: Fox Faunus

[Title]: None

[Level]: 13

[Dependent Stats]

HP: 215/215

STR: 13

END: 20

VIT: 19

DEX: 19

AGI: 25

INT: 10

WIS: 19

LUK: 16

CSM: 26

[Skill Points]: 0

Everything checked out. The intelligence is probably gonna be a problem but it makes sense. I barely know anything about the world. I mean, I didn't watch World of Remnant. Just didn't think it would be that important. Good God was I wrong. But hey! My charisma is still incredible and agility is great! But I don't think I'm prepared to do the initiation. But if Jaune can survive it, I can definitely make it out alive.

Speaking of, WHERE IS JAUNE!? I didn't see him in the ballroom and he didn't help Ruby. Did me existing doing something!? What if I got him erased from Remnant!? Oh god, WHAT HAVE I DONE!? Ok, don't panic. You can get through this. There is nothing truly saying that Jaune is gone, maybe he'll show at the initiation. Probably. Hopefully. Maybe?

Well anyways, hopefully he shows and I don't die. "Abilities."

Ability List:

[Sniper: LV 3]

[LV UP cost: 15]

The Gamer can increase damage and accuracy of all hits you make with a bow. If you get a critical hit than the arrow can hit another target in a straight line from the target.

[Light Weapon Proficiency: LV 2]

[LV UP cost: 10]

The Gamer is able to use light weapons such as Daggers, Shortswords, and Rapiers.

[Shadow Stealth: LV 1]

[LV UP cost: 5 AP]

The Gamer becomes skilled in stealth and staying quiet. You can make your footsteps make no sound, you can hide in crowds easier, and you are quick to find the best hiding spot in the current situation. Critical Hits are more often to happen.

Ability Shop:

[Trapper: LV1]

[Cost: 5 AP]

The Gamer is more adapt at setting traps: Camouflaged Traps, Trip Wires, ETC.

Ability Points: 10

Ooooooh. I spent a few minutes deciding what I should put my Ability Points into before settling on increasing Shadow Stealth to level three and buying the Trapper Ability. Trapper could be helpful sometimes and it could keep me from being snuck up on. After this I decided to just rest my head that was still pounding.

I still can't get my mind off that nightmare. That can't be true… that I left my mom to die? No of course not. I did everything I could to save her, right? Right? I began to slowly doubt myself, thinking that I could do more and if I tried harder then maybe I would still be on earth. God Damn it…

My fox ears began to twitch as they picked up a sound. A faint sound of a turning page. It's incredible what these fox ears can do. Anyways, I looked around the ballroom, which wasn't as dark because Faunus Night Vision. I saw a certain someone sitting against the wall with their nose in a book. It was Team RWBY's resident Shadow Kitty, Blake Belladonna.

Well… the middle of the night isn't the best time to introduce yourself but hey, better than nothing. I stood up from my sleeping bag and began to walk across the minefield of sleeping students. I managed to get to Blake without stepping on anyone and walked to Blake. She looked from her book and stared at me. She blinked at me and raised an eyebrow.

Welp. Guess I have too speak first.

"Uh… Hello. I'm Robin Redwood. I'm sorry about my friends earlier, they can be a handful." I said with the most welcoming smile I could give. "Oh. Sorry if I'm interrupting anything."

Blake gave a small smile. "It's alright. I was just about done reading the book anyways." Ok! Good start. "My name is Blake."

"Well it's very nice to meet you Blake. Are you prepared for the initiation?" I asked, trying to start any sort of conversation. She gave a small nod. "Ready as I'll ever be." She then paused for a moment and looked at my head. More specifically, my Faunus ears.

"Yes. I am a Faunus, hopefully that isn't a problem for you." I said, but I already knew it wasn't. Blake cleared her throat a bit and shook her head. "Oh! Not at all."

"Wonderful!" I said with a smile, a bit too loud though.

"Some people are trying to SLEEP!" A random person said within the ballroom. I gave a small wince as I looked to Blake. "We'll continue this chat a later time. It was nice meeting you Ms. Blake." I whispered as I began to walk off again too my bag. I made it without stepping on anyone again and sat on my bag, thinking thoughts. And I thinked those thoughts for a long while.

The morning came pretty quickly, as the sun rose into the sky and the rays entered through the windows of the Ballroom of Beacon Academy. I had four hours of sleep but I didn't feel that tired. I sighed as the ballroom began to come alive. People started picking up their things and walking out of the ballroom. Me however, waited for my two friends to awake.

In the distance I heard the loud voice shout. "WAKE UP SLEEPYHEAD!" Oh! Good to know Ren and Nora are still here.

That however, woke up Ruby. She went to raise her head up but her head was still in the bag. "What in the-?" She asked as she pulled her head out and looked around. "How did my head get in there?"

"Don't ask me." I said as I patted the smaller sisters head. She gave a tired yawn in response and sighed, probably wanting to go back to sleep. I stood up and looked to the other sleeping sister, thinking of what I should do to wake her up. A small smirk spread across my face as I looked too Rubes. "Hey Ruby. Wanna help me wake Yang up?"

Ruby blinked in confusion, but then slowly wore the same smirk as I did. "Still got that magic marker?"

"Hehehehe….."

Yang woke up about thirty minutes later and slowly moved around. She gave a tired groan as she started to raise up. "Ugh…. Morning already..?" Me and Ruby sat on our bags, watching Yang and trying not to laugh. Yang rubbed her eyes and blinked at us. "What's so funny."

"Nothing." Me and Ruby said at the same time, giggling while we watched Yang. Yang, still incredibly confused, looked around before seeing a small bit of reflection in the window. On her face was cat whiskers drawn on her face, a beard drawn on her chin, and a unibrow drawn on her forehead. "WHAT DID YOU TWO DO!?" She exclaimed, turning to us with a giant glare on her face.

"I'll give you five seconds."

"RUN RUBY!" I exclaimed as I shot up from my bag and ran for my life. But, Ruby has her semblance. She easily dashed out the door with a trail of rose petals following behind her.

"RUBY WAIT!" I exclaimed as I heard the angry yell of a certain Yang Xiao Long storm after us as quick as we possibly can. She was gaining on me and she was gaining on me quickly. I ran with all the speed I could muster, trying to get away from the angry blonde.

"IM GONNA POUND YOU INTO THE DIRT!"

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"

I rushed through the halls, down some stairs, past a very confused Weiss, and into the locker room. When I arrived to the locker room I tried to find a place to hide. You see, I can't use Shadow Stealth unless it's dark or there's a place to hide. So I'm screwed. I rush around a bit more before the door slammed open. The very angry and very funny looking Yang rushed towards me.

Yep. I'm gonna die.

"Ow….." I said in pain as Yang and Ruby began to get their things out of their lockers. While I got hit, Ruby got off Scott Free. Not fair. Not fair at all.

"You never learn, do you Robbie?" Yang said, closing her locker and turning my way. "Don't mess with me while I'm sleeping." I slowly got too my feet and held my stomach. "Ruby has as much to do with this as I did!"

Yang rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. "Well she is my sis. You are just a roommate." I dusted myself off and pretended like I got stabbed. "Ow… my feelings." Ruby gave a small laugh and smiled. "Well I'm excited! Won't have to do any talking to anyone! Just me and my baby Crescent Rose." She said as she cradled the weapon.

Yang looked too her and wrapped her in a side hug. "Please remember that you're not the only one taking this initiation. If you want to grow up you're gonna have to learn how to meet new people and learn how to work together."

Ruby rolled her eyes in annoyance. "Uuuuuuugh, you sound like Dad! " She turns to look at her sister. "Okay, first of all, what does meeting people have to do with fighting? And secondly, I don't need people to help me grow up. I drink milk."

I blinked in confusion. "What does that have to do with anything?" My question was ignored as the sisters continued talking. "But what about when we form teams?" Yang asked her little sister who suddenly became worried about it.

"I-I don't know…" Ruby looked away from her, she probably hadn't thought about it that far. She looked up to Yang and smiled warmly. "You'll be on my team, right Yang?" Yang looked away from her sister. "Ummm, I was thinking that…maybe you should be with different people?" Yang asked while stroking her hair.

"Ooooh! You're in trouble!" I teased the blonde as she looked at me with another glare.

"My dearest sister Yang…" Ruby had her eyes been covered by her hair with a creepy aura coming out of her. She slowly looks at her sister, showing her an angry expression. "Are you saying that you do not wish to be on the same team as me?"

Yang immediately raised her hands in defense while sweating buckets. "W-What? Nonononono, why would I do something like that?! I want to be on your team! I just thought…" She suddenly looks at her with a sheepishly smile, "I don't know, maybe it would help you break out of your antisocial shell?"

"You are just digging yourself deeper." I said with a small laugh.

Ruby's anger rose, "What?! I don't need to break out of my shell, that's-"

"Ridiculous who they allow in the school." I heard a certain Ice Queen say from the other side of the locker room. I turned and looked at Weiss too see what she was talking about. Pyrrha was with her, trying to be as polite as she could be.

"So, Pyrrha," Weiss began speaking. "Have you given any thought to whose team you would like to be on? I'm sure everyone must be eager to unite with such a strong, well known, individual, such as yourself."

"Hmmm, well I'm not quite sure. I was planning on letting the chips fall where they may." Phyrra answered. "Well, I was thinking maybe we could be on a team together," Weiss says, sounding as nice as she could.

"Hmmm, that sounds grand." Phyrra answers her.

"Great!" Weiss exclaimed. The faces she was making were a huge indication that she was thinking very…. Greedy things. Well, let's have some fun with this. I then began walking to the two and stepping in.

"Heya Pyrrha! How was your first day?" I asked the red haired huntress and gave the most welcoming smile ever. Weiss's face turned from evil planning to a death glare. Pyrrha on the other hand was more than happy to see me.

"Oh! It was wonderful!" She said with a grin as Weiss looked like she had gone mad. She stepped in between me and Pyrrha, still giving the biggest glare. "You know this man!?" She exclaimed to which Pyrrha nodded. "Yes. He was one of the first friends I made here. This is Robin."

Weiss looked absolutely crushed. "I know who he is!" She turned to me and pointed a finger at my chest. "Why'd you come over here anyways? And Pyrrha will be on my team."

"Well Pyrrha is a friend of mine and I just wanted to see what she was up too. And since Pyrrha is on your team do you mind if I join it as well." I asked, wiggling my fox ears just to try and get under her skin. This is actually really fun. But I am definitely going to get stabbed.

"That actually sounds lovely." Pyrrha said. Weiss spun around to her and went wide eyed. "No! I mean.. no. He can't join, I don't even know if he is skilled enough to join." Geez… She really doesn't like me. I gave my usual smile and nodded. "Alright! Can't argue with that, guess I'll have to prove myself during initiation. It was a pleasure seeing you two again."

Weiss was just about too lose it when the speaker came on and Glynda spoke through it. "Will all students please head towards Beacon Cliff. The initiation is about to begin. Please head towards Beacon Cliff."

"Well it was wonderful seeing you two again but I got to go. See at the initiation!" I said as I zoomed off out of the locker room. Thank God for Glynda.

After a bit of walking every student arrived at the forest. We each stood on a little pad as Ozpin and Glynda walked in front of us. "For years you have trained to become warriors." Ozpin started talking. "And today, your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest."

Glynda quickly took over, "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."

"What?!" Ruby screamed in somewhat horror.

"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." Ozpin continued while taking a swing of his coffee. "That being said, the first person you make eye contact with after landing will be your partner for the next four years."

Ruby whimpered in despair at hearing that information as I gave a sigh. Here we go. Make or break time. Just gotta get out of here alive and get into Beacon. Easy! Oh who am I kidding no it's not

[Quest Gained: Beacon Initiation]

Description: This is the Beacon Initiation. This will determine wether or not you will get into the academy. However you can, you MUST succeed in all of these objectives.

Objective 1: Find a Partner

Objective 2: Make Your Way to the Temple

Objective 3: ?

Objective 4: ?

Well…. there's no backing out now.

"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" Ozpin said with a foreboding tone which made most of the students shudder. "You will be monitored and graded for the duration of your initiation. But our instructors will not intervene." Ozpin told the class.

"Ooooooooh…looks like I was right, Ren!" A certain Thor-inspired girl laughed, sticking her tongue at her friend, making the black-haired ninja boy sigh.

"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."

One by one the students began to be launched into the sky. Ruby, who was the one beside me, launched high into the air. I took a random stance and closed my eyes. Shit. We never worked on landing strategy! Well shit….

"To infinity and-" The pad launched my high into the air without warning. "HOLY SHIT!"

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!