Chapter 2: Initiation

/An odd way to start a chapter, but, anyone else get confused when learning team CVFY is team Coffee?

Anyway welcome to chapter two. This is gonna be a long one.\


Colton starts to sit up from his bag, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes. He notices that Blake was also just getting up, so he decided to go talk to her.

As Colton approaches, Blake takes notice, and turns to face him. When he gets close enough he holds out a hand. "Hi. I'm Colton Lux Tenebris, nice to meet you."

Blake takes the offered hand and the two give each other a friendly handshake.

"Blake Belladonna, and likewise." The two let go, and Colton decided to rip the bandaid off right away, since no one else is up.

"I know your a fanus." Blake freezes, looking at Colton in shock.

"How do you know?" Blake asks without raising her voice.

"The twitching bow is a dead give away, that and your family name."

Blake looks dejected, seeing this Colton continues to speak. "Why don't we go over to the cafeteria and have a nice civil talk?"

Blake nods, as the two walk in the direction of the cafeteria.


Upon reaching the cafeteria, the two get some food and sit at a table.

Colton speaks up after swallowing a bite of food. "Are you part of the White Fang?"

Blake looks up. "No, at least not anymore."

Colton smiles, knowing that the response he got was the truth.

"Alright then, that's all I need to hear. I'll keep your secret safe."

Blake looked dumbfounded. "Just like that? Your dropping the subject? Your not going to question me further?"

Colton waves a dismissive hand. "Nah, you said your no longer part of the White Fang, so there's no reason for me to be concerned. I can tell that you've said the truth Blake. Plus it's not my secret, it's yours, so I have no right to share it with others."

Blake smiles. "Well then, thank you for understanding."

Colton smiles back. "No problem, although I do have a condition for me to keep your secret a secret."

Blake grimaced. "What's the condition?"

Colton held out his hand. "You become my friend."

Blake was taken a back, then she regains her composure, and shook his hand. "Alright, I guess we're friends now."

The two now friends finish their food, then Colton gets up. "Well, I'm going to go and get a shower in before it gets too crowded. You should probably do the same, especially if you want to shower without people finding out your a fanus."

With that, Colton is surrounded by light before speeding off faster than the eye can follow, leaving a confused Blake.


After rounding the corner, Colton decided to magic his way over to the showers with some teleportation, lucky no one was in the showers so he wasn't caught using magic.

After a good shower, Colton made his was over to the locker room where everyone stored their equipment.

From there Colton was taking his time getting ready for initiation, he had to take his time since there were a bunch of people getting ready at the same time.

Having lost his patients, he gets up and walks to his locker, which coincidentally was blocked by Weiss and Pyrrha, who were just finishing up a conversation.

"Excuse me." Colton says to the two girls. "My locker is right here, and I'd like to get ready for initiation."

"Oh, I'm sorry." Pyrrha apologizes, as she and Weiss move out of the way.

Colton grabs his backup weapons and equipped them to his belt, then he followed up by attaching a small pouch to the right side of belt. This pouch contains Dust crystals, plenty of them.

After getting his gear, he turns to Pyrrha. "Hello, I don't believe I know who you are. I'm Colton Lux Tenebris. And you?"

Hearing this, Weiss steps in. "Wait, you've never heard of her? She's Pyrrha Nikos, the invincible girl."

Colton looked confused. "Huh?"

Weiss grew a little annoyed. "She won the Mistral Regional Tournament 4 times in a row, she even was on the cover of Pumpkin Pete's marshmallow flakes!"

"Ugh, that disgusting excuse of breakfast food? Now I feel sorry for you." Colton directs the last part of what he said to Pyrrha.

Finally getting the chance to speak, Pyrrha replies, "Yeah, it's not that good for you, and it never tasted that good either."

"That I agree with." Colton says with a chuckle.

Colton turns to Pyrrha. "Well it's nice meeting you, and I gotta say, I hope to see how well you are in combat. Gotta see if that title of yours is accurate, or if every opponent you've faced was just a pushover."

With that bold statement, Colton leaves the locker room, and heads out to where initiation took place.

Meanwhile, Weiss was left stunned by Colton boldly challenging Pyrrha's title like that.

Pyrrha on the other hand was smiling. 'The way he acted, he acted like I was just a person, and not some celebrity. I think that I want to be on his team, after all, I can't let someone like him go. He's going to be my chance to be treated as a normal person.'

Pyrrha started to walk out after hearing an announcement for students to gather at the initiation grounds.


Everyone has gathered at Beacon Cliff, standing on metallic platforms near the cliffside.

Ozpin upon seeing everyone was accounted for, began his speech.

"For years, you have trained to become warriors, and today, your abilities will be evaluated in the Emerald Forest."

Goodwitch decided to speak up at that moment. "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."

"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 stated.

There was some chatter among the crowd, this was expected as this information was shocking to most inductees.

Ozpin continued talking, "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?" No one spoke up, or made a move. "Good, now take your positions."

/Authors note: yes I copy-pasted most of the speech. Sue me\

Each of the inductees got into a starting position, as each of them was launched, going down the line.

It was near Pyrrha's turn as she was formulating a plan to get Colton on her team. 'I've got it, I'll just wait until I have a clear shot, then use Miló in javelin form to pin him to a nearby tree, that will guarantee that I get on his team.'

Once Pyrrha was done forming her plan, she was launched, followed by Colton.

Ozpin smiled as Colton was the last to launched. 'Good luck' Ozpin silently wished the Grimm-in-hiding.


Colton was flying through the air getting ready to use his landing strategy, when all of a sudden, he gets pinned to a nearby tree.

It took him a moment to register what happened to him. 'What just happened?' He asks himself.

He looks down, looking at a red and gold colored javelin keeping him stuck on the tree by his belt.

'How the-' the javelin was perfectly lodged between his belt and his jeans, somehow not cutting the belt in half.

'Wait isn't that the weapon Pyrrha was holding?' Colton looks up, and sees Pyrrha approaching from a distance. "This yours?" He asks her.

"I'm sorry." Pyrrha responds automatically.

The two teens then make eye contact, setting in stone their partnership.

Colton dislodges himself from the tree and lets himself fall to the ground, landing on his feet.

Colton then hands Pyrrha her weapon back. "Well, looks like we're partners now. I gotta say, it was bold of you to pin me to the tree." Colton gives off a smirk as he says this.

The statement followed by the smirk caused Pyrrha to blush a little. Seeing the slight blush, Colton gives off a light-hearted laugh. "Don't worry, I'm just teasing. Cmon let's get going."

Pyrrha calms down, and cheers up. "Yes let's."

The two now partners start to make their way over to the temple.


After some time, the duo come across a cave, Colton used his semblance to create a light source in his hand. "This cave looks suspicious." He's says wearily.

Pyrrha nods. "Indeed it does. Should we go in there?"

Colton shook his head. "Probably not, but it can't hurt to check."

Colton takes a few steps into the cave, only to be immediately met with an ancient looking DeathStalker glaring right at him.

Colton takes a few steps back, and grabs Pyrrha by her arm. "Okay, time for us to run."

Without waiting for a response, Colton takes off running north, dragging Pyrrha along with him. After a few seconds, he lets go of Pyrrha as the start running side by side.

"Any idea on how to outrun this thing?" Pyrrha desperately asks.

Colton thinks for a second, then he gets an idea. "This deathstalker looks to be able to run insane speeds, so why don't we run at an even faster speed."

Pyrrha seems to get the idea, as she grabs Colton's hand. Colton activates his semblance and the two are surrounded by light, then their feet slightly lift off the ground as they start moving incredibly fast, not fast enough to lose the deathstalker, but fast enough to not get caught by it.

/Authors note: I'm not having him be able to move at the speed of light. That's just too overpowered in this world. Also they're slightly floating when this kind of thing .\

After a few minutes Colton gets blindsided by a tree branch, causing the partners to abruptly stop, as Colton's concentration on his semblance was broken. The momentum of their speed cause them to tumble forward.

The deathstalker finally catches up, and Colton quickly gets to his feet. Colton summons his keyblades and get ready to fight. What Colton did not expect was to get backhanded by the deathstalker, sending him flying.

When Colton stopped flying he realized he was stuck in a tree again. "What's with me getting stuck in trees today."

"Tell me about it?"

Colton took a double take. "Wait... Ruby?!"

Lo and behold, Ruby was in the tree as well.

"Yeah, I was falling from the sky, and before I hit the ground, we collided and got stuck in this tree."

Before Ruby gets down the two teens here a voice nearby. "Did your sister just fall from the sky?"

The teens look and see Yang and Blake standing not to far from them.

"I-" Yang began to say before being abruptly cut off.

"YEEHAW!" All of a sudden an Ursa comes charging into the clearing before falling flat.

An orange haired girl rolls off the Ursa disappointed that it was dead. "Aww it broke."

A boy wearing green, with black hair and a pink stripe came into view, out of breath. "Nora! Please never do that again." Unfortunately the boys plea was unheard as the now named Nora ran over to the pedestals not to far away, and proceeded to grab a gold Rook piece, chanting, "I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!"

The boy shouts to get the attention of the energetic ginger. "NORA!"

Finally hearing the boy, Nora responds with, "Coming, Ren!", before zooming of towards the now named Ren.

Blake looks over at Yang. "Did that girl just ride on an Ursa?"

I—" Yang began before being interrupted yet again.

A screech sounded out as Pyrrha came into the scene being chased by the deathstalker. Noticing Colton she shouts for his attention. "Colton!"

"Pyrrha! Are you okay?!" Colton shouts from his spot in the tree, as he got himself unwedged and was just standing in the tree.

Getting down from the tree, Ruby noticed the deathstalker. "Woah!" She says as she picks up her pace to get over to her sister.

"Ruby!" Yang shouts, clearly happy to see her sister.

"Yang!" Ruby tried going in for a hug, but was interrupted when Nora came between them. "Nora!"

"Did she just run all the way here with a Death Stalker on her tail?" Blake asks confused.

That was the final test of patience for Yang as she ignited in flames and with red eyes. "I can't take it anymore! Can everyone just chill out for two seconds before something crazy happens again?!"

A few seconds of silence had passed as the Death Stalker continued to chase Pyrrha in the distance. Looking around, Ruby tried to see if she could spot Weiss. "Weiss should be here by now," she said not knowing where the Schnee heiress was.

Colton looks up. "Found her."

Every else looks up as well, and sees Weiss hanging off the talons of a Nevermore. "I can't believe you just left me here!" Weiss shouts at Ruby.

"I told you to jump!" Ruby shouts back.

"She's gonna fall." Observed Ren.

"She'll be fine." Ruby stated casually.

"She's falling" observed Ren again.

True to Ren's observation, Weiss was now falling towards the ground. When she was close enough, Colton jumps from the tree, catching Weiss, before letting go with one hand and summoning Oathkeeper. Colton dug Oathkeeper into the side of a tree, slowing their descent.

One they stopped, Colton gently let Weiss down before de-summoning his weapon.

As everyone gathered, Pyrrha was sent flying over to them, where she landed right in front of them.

Colton offered her a hand. "You okay?" He asks his partner, concerned.

Taking his hand and getting helped up, Pyrrha replies with, "Just a little sore is all."

Seeing on how it seemed like everyone was finally here, Yang exclaims, "Great, now we can all die together!"

"Not if I can help it!" Ruby says before charging at the Death Stalker.

"Ruby, wait!" Yang shouts, but to no avail.

Ruby tries to attack the deathstalker, keyword tries, as her attacks clearly didn't do more than annoy it.

Upon realizing her attacks won't do anything, Ruby starts to panic. "D-don't worry, I got this."

Ruby tries to fire off more shots from her weapon, before giving up and booking it. As she ran, the deathstalker started to follow her, and the nevermore started to rain down feathers, some of them catch Ruby by the cape, pinning her to the ground.

Seeing this, Colton took action, running in Ruby's direction. Summon Oblivion in his left, he reached in his pouch for a wind Dust crystal.

/Author's note: Oblivion is always in the left hand, Oathkeeper is always in the right hand\

Grabbing the crystal, he touches it to his keyblade, causing the crystal to be absorbed into the weapon.

Colton then pointed Oblivion in Ruby's direction, shouting, "Wind!"

A massive amount of wind energy erupts from the keyblade, the energy soars forward, tearing all of the feathers from the ground, sending them flying, and freeing Ruby.

Then Colton grabs an ice Dust crystal from his pouch and touches it to Oblivion, the crystal gets absorbed, and Colton points it towards the deathstalker. "Freeze!"

Ice energy is emitted from the keyblade, the energy freezes the deathstalker by its tail, temporarily immobilizing it.

Taking this opportunity, Ruby runs over to Yang, embracing her in a hug. "Are you okay, sis?" Yang asks worriedly.

"I'm fine!" Ruby responds with.

Weiss took this moment to speak up. "Well there's the deathstalker here, and the nevermore up there. However, they aren't our objective. I say we get what we came here for and leave."

Joining the group, Colton agrees. "Good idea, after all, I doubt we'd be able to handle two powerful Grimm like them at the same time."

Colton and Ruby head over to the pedestals, Colton grabbing the other gold Rook piece, while Ruby grabbed a gold Knight piece.

After that, everyone started heading in the direction of the meeting point. Getting close to the cliffside, and the temple that resides there, the 8 teens were greeted by the nevermore, which broke the bridge they were on in half, splitting the group in two, with Ruby, Yang, Weiss, Colton, and Nora on one side, and Ren, Pyrrha, and Blake on the other.

Unfortunately for the last three, the deathstalker from before appeared. The group of three start to fight it, while the others try to fight the nevermore.

After a few minutes of missing shots, Colton looks over to the other 3, noticing their struggle against the Scorpion-like Grimm.

Colton turns to Nora. "We need to get over there." He says while motioning with his head.

Nora just smiles as she jumps in front of Colton, swinging her hammer down, launching him towards the deathstalker, then turning her hammer upside down, she propells herself towards it.

As Colton is flying toward the Grimm, he charges dark energy in Oblivion. He then releases the energy in the form of a dark laser beam.

/Author's note: think of it like Cyberse Quantum Dragon's Quantum Encryption attack, but instead of a breath attack, its shot from the Oblivion keyblade.\

The attack hit the Grimm head on, causing it to be forced back, before Nora flys in hitting the Grimm on the head, staggering it.

Unfortunately the momentum of Nora's attack caused her to slide back, knocking Blake off the bridge. Luckily, Blake used this as an opportunity to fight the nevermore instead. Blocking a few swings from the Grimm's pincers, and retaliating with strikes to the face, Colton noticed that the deathstalker's stinger was loose.

Colton had an idea, dismissing both keyblades, he turns to Pyrrha. "Pyrrha the tail!"

Pyrrha instantly understands what he means. "On it." She says as she throws her shield at the stinger.

The shield flys true and cuts the stinger off, as it embeds itself into the skull of the deathstalker.

Seeing how the stinger didn't kill the beast, Colton turns to Nora. "Quick! Finish it off!"

Colton gets down on his knees, he uses his semblance to create a big shield to hold, out of light.

Colton positions the light shield so Nora could run up and jump from it. Understanding what Colton was doing, Nora did just that, she ran up the makeshift ramp/shield, and Colton shot to his feet, launching Nora up.

Nora starts spinning in mid air, before swinging her hammer down onto the stinger, pushing it in further, finally killing the monster.

The group of 4 start to catch their breath, well except for Nora, the 4 turn and see the other 4 just finish off the nevermore.

"Nice!" Colton says in awe of what Ruby just did.

Ren only nods his head.


It was the team naming ceremony, right after initiation, and Ozpin was just finishing announcing the new teams. "Cardin Winchester, Russel Thrush, Dove Bronzewing, and Sky Lark. You four acquired the black Knight pieces, from now on, you four shall be known as: Team CRDL(Cardinal), lead by Cardin Winchester."

The crowd starts clapping for the new team, the Ozpin starts speaking again. "Colton Lux Tenebris, Pyrrha Nikos, Nora Valkyrie, and Lie Ren. You four have acquired the gold rook pieces, from now on, you four shall be known as: team CRNN(Crown), lead by Colton Lux Tenebris. Congratulations young man."

Colton felt a surge of happiness flow through him as he looked at his new teammates, they looked back, he smiled, a big genuine smile, causing Nora to give an even bigger smile, if that's possible, Ren to give a small smile and a nod, and Pyrrha to playfully punch Colton in the shoulder. Of course the light punch didn't cause him to move, as there wasn't enough force behind it.

The new team steps off the stage, and watch as their 4 other friends walk up onto the stage and get made into to team RWBY(Ruby) lead by Ruby herself.

Turning to his new friends, he speaks up. "Pyrrha, Nora, Ren. Let's go get some rest, we got a big day tomorrow after all."

Nora gives an enthusiastic reply. "You got it, fearless leader!"

How are they already talking to each other like this? Easy on the way back, everyone introduced themselves to each other. It turns out, Neither Nora, nor Ren knew of Pyrrha either, much to her delight.

Team CRNN walks off in the direction of the dorms, to get some long deserved rest.


/well that took a lot of effort, and time. There you have it, our light-dark protagonist is now fully in Beacon, with his own team no less.

Also you'll notice some bits and pieces of comedy thrown onto the story, and no I'm not talking about Yang's puns, those don't count. The bits of comedy is to just get a small chuckle out of those who are reading this story, after all, not everything has to be serious all the time.\