Damn this chapter was a lot longer than I thought it would be XD

But I'm glad it was, it was a lot of fun to work on and I especially enjoyed writing all the fight scenes.

Not gonna lie, pretty proud of myself this one and I think you're all gonna like it.

So I won't keep you any longer, enjoy!


The rushing wind against his face. The upcoming sea of emerald trees. The adrenaline rushing through his body. The sound of Jaune letting out a high-pitched scream as he was launched into the forest. Ruby shouting "BIRDIE NO!" after hitting a tiny Nevermore. These were all the things Izuku was experiencing as he was flying over the Emerald Forest.

Izuku gritted his teeth nervously as he tried to keep himself focused and not panic as he flew through the air. He knew the Beacon initiation test was bound to be intense and the fact it was starting with something like this, he wasn't wrong. 'Don't worry, you have a plan for this,' Izuku's hyper thinking brain quickly got to work. As he planned it almost seemed like time slowed down around him. 'Use Zandaka to slow yourself down and make sure to roll as you land, that's the safest way to land without using much aura to cushion to blow!'

With a plan set, Izuku angled himself downward, so he started falling towards the trees. Before he could reach the forest, he quickly unsheathed his katana and slashed it a few times to cut apart some branches he was about to fall into before stabbing his Kanata into a nearby tree. With the grip on his katana tightly, Izuku circled through the tree with the force he still had going through the air until he reached near the ground and pulled his sword out of the tree and proceeded to roll through the ground before landing in the crouching position.

"Alright!" Izuku couldn't help but grin a bit at his successful landing strategy. Quickly looking around, he breathed a sigh of relief from not seeing any Grimm nearby. But he still kept his katana in hand incase he ended up running into some, can't be too careful after all and no doubt the teachers would be watching and judging his performance. "Just need to find Jaune now,"

With a new goal in mind, Izuku took off into the forest to find his best friend and hopefully partner.

BOOM!

BOOM!

BOOM!

"OUTTA MY WAY BITCHES!" Katsuki yelled as he soared through the sky with a mad grin on his face. As soon as he was launched into the forest he created a massive explosion that boosted his jump ten-fold and he was sent soaring through the entire forest at high speeds. His plan was to fly himself all the way to where the relics were and get one back before anyone else to show his superiority over all the other students. It would have been easy…until Katsuki remembered something Ozpin said.

'After you've partnered up, make your way to the northern end of the forest.'

Katsuki's smirk immediately fell after remembering that and his expression quickly turned into a pissed off one. With a loud growl, he aimed his hands upward before creating an explosion that sent him down towards the forest. "FUCKING HELL!" With Katsuki shooting down, he quickly aimed his hands downwards and sent more explosions out of his hands to kill all his momentum to cushion his fall as he landed on the ground on his feet. "Can't believe I have to waste my time with this shit."

Katsuki really didn't want a partner. Or a team. He knew he would have to be a part of one when he came here, it was basic knowledge for Huntsman schools. But it didn't mean he was looking forward to it one bit, Katsuki worked best alone without anyone to hold him back. He could easily handle just about any sort of Grimm by himself, having a team and other people getting involved would just get in the way and distract him. "I don't need any extras getting in my damn way…" Katsuki muttered as he walked through the forest at a rather slow pace. He rather just delay this as much as he could, he knew if he didn't get a partner and a team he wouldn't be able to attend school so it wasn't like he had a choice in the matter. "HEY! IF ANYONES AROUND HERE JUST SHOW YOURSELF ALREADY SO WE CAN GET THIS FUCKING OVER WITH!"

Grrrrrrr…

There was actually a response to Katsuki's yelling…but it wasn't any of his fellow students. Multiple pairs of piercing blood red eyes appeared in the shadows of the forest that surrounded Katsuki. The ash-blond looked around before grinning, quickly growing excited. "Heh, let me guess, you ass wipes showed up because I was pissed off huh?" As if to respond the Grimm, which turned out to be a pack of beowolves, stepped out of the shadows and continued to glare at Katsuki as they circled around him like prey. But Katsuki wasn't intimidated or scared at all, in fact, this was just what he needed. "Good thing too, you're just what I need to warm myself up!"

Katsuki tightened his fist as it glowed with the fire dust running through them, eventually smoke being released from them. "GET READY TO FUCKING DIE!" And with that, the Grimm and Katsuki charged right at each other.


Back with Izuku, his trek through the forest was a little bit more uneventful than Katsuki as the green headed boy has yet to encounter anything, Grimm or human. "Wonder where everyone could be…" Izuku wondered out loud as he continued to hike through the emerald forest. He couldn't even hear anyone fighting and such, sure the forest was big but given the number of people there were Izuku figured he should have run into someone by now at least. "I hope Jaune's ok,"

Despite the fact that Jaune passed and proved he was worthy of taking on Beacon, Izuku couldn't help but worry about his best friend a little bit. Jaune always seemed to…fall behind in a lot of stuff. Combat, dust handling, aura, and…a lot of things really. It pained Izuku to admit and he really didn't wanna bad mouth his best friend like that, but it was the truth. Heck even when they were being launched into the forest while everyone else was easily able to handle it and form their landing strategy Izuku caught Jaune just flailing around in the air…oh boy he really hoped Jaune was alright with however he landed. "I better find him-"

FWOOOSH!

Suddenly Izuku's attention was brought to the sound of roaring flames. Looking in the direction of the sound Izuku gasped at seeing a large pillar of fire erupt from near his location. "Woah! What's going on over there?!" Izuku shouted before putting on his game face and running in the direction. "I better go check it out, someone could need some help!"

"Last chance. Leave before you end up like your friends." Over by where the fire was created, glaring at three Ursa minors was the dual haired boy Izuku and Jaune encountered the previous day, Shoto Todoroki. Upon landing in the Emerald Forest, Shoto followed Ozpin's instructions. He walked through in the forest in the direction of the ruins where Ozpin put the relics while keeping an eye out for any of his fellow students that he might end up being partnered with. Along the way he ran into a pack of five Ursa minors, two of which were now turning to dust after being blast by flames that Shoto shot at them with his right Chakram. The Ursa's around him simply growled and snarled at Shoto in response, causing him to narrow his eyes at the Grimm. "Fine then."

One of the Ursa quickly charged at Shoto with it's fangs out but the dual haired boy reacted quickly and brought his left chakram up and shot a couple rounds of ice dust bullets at it, his hand glowing blue as he did, and proceeded to freeze the lower half of the Ursa and easily immobilized it.

The other two Ursa charged at him and rose up before bringing their sharp claws down at him. Shoto reacted quickly and started spinning his chakram before bringing them up and slashing the Ursa horizontally through the chest. This caused the Grimm to let out whelps up pain as they were pushed back. Shoto then aimed his left chakram forward and, with the fire dust loaded into it glowing brightly, Shoto shot a stream of flames at the two Ursa that quickly engulfed them.

When the flames ceased, the Ursa were panting heavily. Their skin was heavily burn but they still managed to survive. "Let's finish this," Shoto said before slamming his right chakram onto the ground. The ice dust glowed bright was a wave of ice was sent out of it and in the direction of the two Ursa, impaling the two Grimm all over and killing them with their bodies quickly started to disintegrate. "Now let's get back on track,"

CRACK!

Shoto heard a roar as the remaining Ursa Minor managed to break out of the ice and quickly started to charge at Shoto with the goal of tearing him to pieces and-

SLASH!

When suddenly a figure sped out of the bushes nearby and swiftly decapitated with the Grimm with a strong slash of his katana. Shoto blinked a few times in surprise as he looked at the one who helped him out and saw none other than the green haired boy from yesterday. "Oh, it's you," Shoto said in his usual tone as Izuku sheathed his katana and looked back at Shoto, the two meeting each other's eyes. "I guess we're partners now,"

"Hehe, y-yeah I guess w-we are," Izuku stuttered as he smiled and scratched the back of his head. While he was hoping to find Jaune to be partners with him, Izuku accepted the fact that sometimes things didn't work out that way. At the very least Izuku was partnered up with someone who seemed to be nice, if a bit stoic. "My n-names Izuku Midoriya, it's nice to meet you,"

Shoto nodded in response, silently returning the gesture. "Shoto Todoroki," With the two now knowing each other's names, they walked up to each other and shook hands to properly greet their new partner. "I think the temples this way, we should head there now. I'm sure a few of the others have made it there by now,"

"Right!" Izuku nodded in agreement and took off with his partner, hopefully the walk there would be nice and smooth.


BOOM!

"Die!"

BOOM!

"DIE!"

BOOM!

"DIE!"

Katsuki was currently have the time of his life right now. He was simply blowing Grimm after Grimm to disintegrating pieces all the while smiling like an absolute mad man. Sure he may still be upset over needing a partner, but times like this made him forget all the crap life sometimes dished out. And it helped that all the noise and shouting he was doing was attracting even more Grimm around for him to utterly decimate.

But of course, all good things must eventually come to an end and, once all the smoke cleared, Katsuki looked around and saw that there were no living Grimm left and the ground was charred black, and a bunch of nearby trees had completely fallen down during the battle. "Tch, that really all you pussies got?" Katsuki clicked his tongue before turning around and beginning to walk away. "Let this teach ya not to mess with me got it?!"

"Heh, looks like I was right. You really are a bigshot," Katsuki turned around as a voice spoke up and leaning against one of the trees that hadn't been knocked down was the person who Katsuki met last night Eijiro Kirishima. Katsuki's eyes widened a bit as Eijiro grinned and waved to the ash blond. "Well nice to met ya partner,"

"…God fucking dammit," Katsuki could tell this guy was gonna annoy him a lot.


"Well…Mr. Bakugo is certainly very…loud," Back at the cliff, Ozpin and Glynda currently were observing the progress of all the students using their scrolls. Being able to see a lot of the forest thanks to many hidden cameras set up all around the forest. Standing by Ozpin's leg was Eri who was simply staying quiet and holding her hands while occasionally looking around when she heard something in the distance. Glynda was currently looking at the footage of Katsuki and was watching as a partnership was formed between him and Eijiro Kirishima. "But I suppose I can't deny his talent when it comes to combat,"

"Hmmm," Ozpin merely hummed and nodded as he kept his eyes on his own scroll which currently had two screens on it. One was of Izuku and Shoto walking through the forest together to find the ruins, occasionally talking to each other. The other screen showed the recent partnership of Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee and the two girls…were certainly struggling to work together to say the least.

"And the newest pair seems to be Nora Valkyrie and Lie Ren," Glynda shook her head before letting out a sigh. "Poor boy... I can't possibly imagine those two getting along. Still, he's probably better off than Miss Nikos." Pulling up another bit of footage showed that Pyrrha was paired up with none other than Jaune. "I don't care what his transcripts say. That Jaune fellow is not ready for this level of combat."

Ozpin continued to look at his scroll as Glynda closed up hers. "I guess we'll find out soon enough. At their current pace, they should reach the temple within just a few minutes." Passed on the footage of where the remaining students were, Glynda was confident in her predictions of the last two pairings were gonna be. "Speaking of which, what did you use as relics this year?"

Ozpin didn't answer as he continued to look at the two recordings, but his attention was gained as he felt a light tugging on his pants. "Hmm, yes?" Ozpin looked down at Eri as the little girl gave him a curious look.

"Is my big brother doing ok?" Eri asked in a concerned tone, worried for how her brother was fairing in the Grimm infested forest.

Ozpin couldn't help but smile a little at this as he nodded his head. "Oh he's doing perfectly fine my dear." Ozpin then enlarged the recording of Izuku and Shoto so that way it was the only one on the screen as he presented it to Eri. "Look, he's even found himself a partner to help him out. He'll do just fine."

Eri watched in fascination as his brother and new friend walked through the forest fearlessly, despite knowing that the Grimm could be anyway. "Go Zuzu go!" Eri cheered, raising up her hands.

Ozpin chuckled a bit at the scene and smiled at Eri. "Well its clear you two are close." It was easy to tell from just a first glance for him, Izuku and Eri clearly had a strong bond with each other. About as close as siblings could be, blood related or not.

"Uh-huh," Eri nodded as she looked up at the headmaster of the school. "He saved my life."

"Oh really?" Ozpin rose a brow of interest at this. "What happened."

Glynda watched as Ozpin made conversation with the little girl, Eri telling him about how she was chased through the forest by Grimm and was saved by Izuku and was brought to his home where she was soon adopted by Izuku's mother. For Ozpin, it was nice seeing that there was still light in this world filled with darkness. People like Eri and Izuku really shined with how they were, but for Glynda she was seeing things rather differently. "Sir I advise that we send her home as soon as possible," Glynda whispered to Ozpin so that Eri wouldn't here, Glynda having a strong feeling she would end up protesting to the idea of going home and away from her brother. "This place isn't a daycare,"

Normally Ozpin would agree, Beacon wasn't exactly a place for little kids. But still, something about this seemed different, "Hmmm…" Ozpin hummed as he looked between Eri and the recording of Izuku and Shoto.

"What?" Glynda questioned.

"Well...if she was willing to put in the effort to stay with him then I don't see an issue in letting her stay," Ozpin told Glynda in his normally calculated tone. "So long as her mother is ok with it of course,"

Glynda's eyes widened in shock. Was Ozpin serious about this. "But sir-" Glynda tried to argue, but Ozpin was his hand and cut her off.

"If you're worried about her safety don't." Ozpin said, showing why he was sure about this. "This is Beacon academy. With the sheer number of skilled Hunters and Huntresses here, I honestly say she couldn't be anymore safer." Glynda couldn't believe the words coming out of Ozpin's mouth and could only sigh and rub her temples in response. "Come now, you must agree it would be rather cruel to separate them."

Glynda blinked a few times as she looked at Eri and how engaged she was at watching her brother. She may be a stern no nonsense woman…but even she couldn't deny how cute the little girl was and similar to Ozpin she could see the bond between her and Izuku. "I suppose…" Glynda felt tempted to pinch herself over the fact that she was agreeing with this. "I hope you know what you're doing sir,"

Ozpin simply nodded before watching the recording of Izuku and Shoto along with Eri.

And as that was happening the last two groups were being formed.


"Hellooooooo! Anyone out there!" Currently walking alone through the forest with a bored expression on her face was Mina Ashido. After being launched into the forest and using her pistol shoes to safely maneuver through the air and land, quickly started to look for a partner. Hopefully she would find either Izuku or Jaune, she may have only met them yesterday, but they seemed pretty fun and being teamed up with one of them for the next four eyes would definitely make sure it wasn't boring. But so far she hadn't found squat, not even some Grimm to take down. "Geez talk about boring…woohooooo! Izuku! Jaune! Literally anybody! I'm right here! Come on out!"

Rustle. Rustle. Rustle.

"Huh?" Mina's ears were immediately alerted to the sound of rustling leaves. Quickly halting her movements, she looked in the direction of the noise and saw something moving around in one of the trees but couldn't make it out due to just how many leaves was covering the trees. "Now what could that be…" Smirking a bit, Mina aimed her wrist at the rustling leaves. "GOTCHA!" Mina then shot out the grappling hook attached to her wrist armor and successfully captured the unknown leave rustler in it. And with a strong tug…

"Ouf!" Mina pulled out none other than the bird headed faunus out of the tree, making him fall to the ground on his butt with a grunt. Mina blinked a bit a few times before flinching a few times as the faunus gave her a bit of a glare. "Is this some kind of joke?"

"Oops, hehe, sorry about that," Mina sheepishly smiled as she freed the faunus from her grappling hook and retracted it. She then lent him a hand to help him up which he accepted. "I guess I thought you were some Grimm hanging out in the tree or something,"

"I suppose I can't blame you for that assumption," The faunus calmly said as he dusted himself off. He wasn't wearing much. Simply a black coat that covered his entire body with some light armor underneath with a bow staffed sheathed on his back along with a quiver of arrows attached to his waist. "I was simply surveying the nearby area looking out for any of our classmates or the enemy," Mina nodded in understanding as the faunus looked at her, their eyes meeting. "But I suppose this makes us partners then,"

"I guess so," Mina shrugged with a simple smile. She may have been hoping for Izuku and Jaune but this guy seemed alright. He had a serious vibe to him but that just meant she would have some fun working to break him out of his shell. She loved little side projects like that. "Names Mina Ashido!"

"I'm Fumikage Tokoyami," The faunus now known as Fumikage properly introduced himself to the peppy girl. He then looked around and examined the various trees before finding a tree with moss growing on it. "Professor Ozpin said the temple was at the northern end of the forest, moss can only grow on the north side of trees. The temples this way then, come. No doubt a few of our peers have already reached it."

"Okie doki!" Mina gave a goofy smile and a salute as she walked up to Fumikage.

But before they left, suddenly something emerged from inside of Fumikage's cloak. Getting right into Mina's face was a shadowy monster with glowing yellow eyes and large hands with sharp claws. "Nice to meet ya partner!" The shadow monster greeted Mina with a big grin.

"AAAAAHHH!" Mina's fight or flight reflex quickly kicked in as she proceeded to kick the shadow monster right in the face and fired a bullet right in its head, knocking it back and onto the ground.

"Ow…" The shadow monster let out.

Meanwhile Fumikage let out an annoyed sigh as he put two fingers too his beak. "I keep warning him not to do that…" Looks like he's got some explaining to do about his semblance to his partner.


SLASH!

SLASH!

ZAP!

"Yeah! Who else wants some!" Over in another part of the forest was a pack of six beowolves and Denki Kaminari. Currently in front of Denki's feet was two disintegrating beowolves and in his hand his sword Chargebolt that was flowing with electricity due to the electric dust crystal currently inserted into the sword. Denki did wait for the beowolves to answer as he slashed his sword though the air and sent a beam of the electricity at the horde of Grimm. Some of the beowolves managed to jump out of the way but two of them ended up being hit by the beam and howled in pain as they were electrocuted and stunned, giving Denki the perfect chance to run up to them and slice off both of their heads with a swift spin attack. "Hell yeah! Ain't nothing can stop me now!"

But just as he said that the electricity flowing through his sword faded, the electric dust crystal having been used up. "Uh-oh," Denki let out, cursing his luck as well as him jinxing himself. Taking a more defense stance, Denki slowly reached for his belt for another dust crystal as the beowolves circles around him while growling angrily. But before they could pounce him…

ZOOM!

Suddenly a white blur zoomed into the scene and ran towards one of the beowolves and with a swift kick following by a loud gunshot, the chest of the beowolf was completely blown away and the remains of the Grimm were sent flying through the air and quickly started disintegrating. The blur then then continued speeding around the area with Denki and the remaining beowolves, the blur then zoomed over the two more of the beowolves and extending their arms out and released a pair of tonfa's and proceeded to punch their heads right off.

"Alright! Way to go speedy!" Denki grinned as he ran up to the remaining beowolf. The Grimm rose up its claws and tried to slash at Denki but the blond quickly ducked before thrusting his sword into the beowolves chest before raising it up and slicing the Grimm in half. "And that's how you do it!"

Once all the Grimm were dead, the blur ran in front of Denki and finally stopped running. "Well I'm glad that was handled," It was none other than Tenya Iida who was now looking down at Denki, looking him right in the eye. "Great work out there."

"Oh, uh, yeah thanks," Denki let out as he sighed while looking Tenya in the eye. Looks like this guy would be his new partner. "Just great…"

"Hm?" Tenya didn't quite catch what Denki said and took off his helmet to hear him better. "What was that?"

"Um, it was nothing," Denki quickly shook it off and just sheathed his sword. "We should probably just head to the temple before more Grimm end up showing up or something,"

"Yes, that would be most wise," Tenya nodded in agreement as he put his helmet back on and pointed in the direction the temple should be in. "No doubt our teachers are watching us and grading us on our performance! We can't waste any time by standing around, they expect us to finish this assignment as fast and efficiently as possible! We were accepted into this prestigious school and we must prove we deserve to be here! Let us make haste!"

And with Tenya began marching in the direction of the temple in a similar manner to a solider. Meanwhile Denki let out another sigh as he began to follow Tenya while a bit slouched. "Figures I'd get stuck with the uptight guy…" Denki muttered, once again cursing his luck. "Why couldn't I have run into one of the girls or something?"


"Aaaaand done!" Jaune said with a smirk as he successfully made and lit up a torch so that him and his partner Pyrrha could explore a dark cave they ended up finding.

And so Pyrrha and Jaune went exploring the cave with their new light source, but the further they went in Pyrrha started to grow a little worried. "I'm not sure this is it…" Pyrrha said as she looked around, getting a bad feeling about this place.

Jaune sighed a bit as he looked down. "Pyrrha, I made the torch," Jaune said as he gestured to the torch he worked hard to make. "Could you at least humor me for, like, five more feet?"

But right after he said that, Jaune tripped and he dropped the torch. The torch landing in a puddle of water and going out. Jaune whimpered a bit as Pyrrha looked around despite not being able to see anything. "Do you feel that?" Pyrrha asked Jaune as that bad feeling she had got worse.

"Soul crushing regret…" Jaune muttered out.

"No it's…warm…" Pyrrha commented as she walked forward a bit. Suddenly a light appeared in front of them, providing a bit of light once more.

"That's the relic!" Jaune guessed with an excited grin as he reached for the 'relic' only for it to pull away as Jaune tried to grab it. "Hey! Bad... relic!"

Jaune then made a jump for it and managed to grab to the 'relic'…only for it to dangle him in the air. "Jaune…" Pyrrha let out in a worried tone with an expression to mask.

Suddenly the 'relic' glowed brighter allowing the two so see exactly what it was…a giant scorpion-like Grimm. And Jaune was grabbing its tail…

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!"

Jaune's incredibly high pitched scream echoed throughout the entire forest, getting reactions from almost everyone still inside it.


"Some girls in trouble!" Denki yelled out as he and Iida stopped and looked around.

"Well hopefully she has a parent to help them," Tenya said with a bit of worry.


With Izuku and Shoto, the two stopped as they heard the scream with Izuku's head immediately shooting up as he looked around with worry. "Oh no!" The greenette yelled out. "Jaune's in trouble!"

"That was a guy?!" Shoto asked, his stoic expression breaking just slightly.


With Katsuki and Eijiro, the two were currently walking through a swampy part of the forest when they heard the scream. Eijiro eyes widened in surprise as Katsuki grinned and let out a laugh. "Hah," the ash-blond let out as he kept walking forward. "Dumbass,"

"Think that girls ok?" Eijiro asked as he grunted a bit as he got his foot unstuck from something under the water.

"Pfft," Katsuki snickered at what Eijiro said. Sometimes he loved how things worked out. "Who knows. Now hurry up stupid hair! The temple should be up ahead!"

"Stupid hair!?" Eijiro yelled back with an annoyed tick on his head. "You're one to talk your hair looks like mine!"

"Tch, whatever," Katsuki rolled his eyes as he kept pressing forward. He really didn't like the dead weight he was forced to drag around. All having a partner did was slow him down. "Just keep moving,"

"Yeah, yeah whatever man," Eijiro said as he and Katsuki continued to move through the swamp. But as they walked forward, suddenly Eijiro looked around as he felt something…odd nearby. It didn't feel right. "Hey…you feel that?"

"…Yeah…something's here," Katsuki said as he also felt something wrong. The two quickly got into a defensive position as they looked around for whatever was nearby. "Hey! Better come out now if you know what's good for you!"

Grrrrr…

Suddenly a loud bellowing sound got the two boys attention. They couldn't see it but nearby, sticking out of the water, was a pair of red eyes and some nostrils. The red eyes narrowed at the two boys as it started to slowly approach them.

SPLASH!


"Hey Shoto! I think I see something up here!" Back with Izuku and Shoto, the two's hike through the forest was mostly uneventful other than that encounter with the horde of Ursa Minor, so finding their way through was thankfully a breeze. As they went further into the forest Izuku eventually found some stone structures. "I think it's the temple!"

Shoto nodded and ran after Izuku and sure enough, the two came across the temple. And they weren't the only ones there. There was four other students there, Ruby's sister Yang, a black haired girl with a bow, and the friend Izuku made the other day Mina Ashido and her partner Fumikage Tokoyami. "Guess we weren't the first ones here," Shoto said, getting the others attention.

"Yo Izuku! There ya are slowpoke!" Mina waved to the Izuku while carrying a chess piece in her hand. The so called Relics Ozpin told the students about turned out to be chess pieces and there were a bunch set up around the temple with a few being gone. Mina had the black queen piece while Yang was carrying the white knight piece. "Hey! Meet my partner! He's the guy we met last night, his names Fumikage. He's a kind of a serious grump and he's got this weird cojoined twin or something but he's cool."

"I'll try and take that as a compliment," Fumikage said in a blank tone.

"So whose that cutie you got with you~?" Mina asked as she gave Shoto a flirty look.

"Hm?" Shoto rose a brow at what Mina said, his stoic face remaining despite Mina's flirting.

"Oh, this is Shoto Todoroki. He's my partner." Izuku properly introduced himself as he walked up to the temple and looked over the relics. Ultimately he decided to take the one closest to him, a black queen piece like Mina had. Once he had his relic Izuku place it in his pocket and walked up to Fumikage with a friendly smile. "It's n-nice to meet you, sorry again about last night. My names Izuku Midoriya,"

"No need to worry, it's in the past," Fumikage reassured Izuku with a nod. "And likewise."

"Ooooh, so you're Izuku," Just then Yang walked up to Izuku with a small grin on her face. Izuku got flustered a bit as Yang looked him over. "Hm, not bad. My sister told me nice things about you."

"Huh? Sister?" Izuku asked in a confused tone, choosing to try and ignore Yang's comment about him.

"Ruby Rose, although she's actually my half-sister," Yang explained with Izuku giving a little 'oh' in response. Given how differently they looked Izuku wouldn't have guess that Ruby was related to this blond girl, but the explanation of being half siblings made sense. "Hey thanks for being nice to her yesterday, she's been a bit nervous about coming here, worrying about making friends and all that,"

"O-Oh, well it's n-no problem at all," Izuku nervously smiled as he scratched his cheek a bit in response. "She l-looked like she n-need a bit of help after all,"

"Well hey, I appreciate green bean," Yang said as she gave Izuku a friendly punch to the shoulder. Although it definitely had some strength to it as Izuku flinched a bit from the hit and quickly started to rub his shoulder. "Names Yang Xiao Long, and that one over there is my partner Blake."

Yang pointed to the black-haired girl simply standing off to the side, "Hey," Blake simply said as she rose up her hand briefly.

"So what now?" Yang asked as she leaned against a nearby pillar with her arms crossed. "Do we just stick around and wait for everyone else or what?"

"Our assignment was to find the relics and head back to the school, so it's probably best that we find our way back," Fumikage spoke up as he looked in the direction they came from. "The others that were previously here already took off so there's no reason we should. It's best if we complete our mission as swiftly as possible,"

"Uh guys…" Blake spoke up getting everyones attention. Everyone turned their heads to her and the black haired girl said nothing as she pointed up at the sky.

"Heads uuuuuuuup!" Falling right out of the sky at high speeds was Yang's sister Ruby.

"Ruby!" Yang shouted. The older sister was about to run up to catch her little sister before she fell. But suddenly Jaune came flung right onto the scene quite literally. He was flung out of the forest and crashed right into Ruby taking her off course and sending them both crashing into a sky.

"Ugh…" Ruby let out as she felt incredibly dizzy, the 15-year-old quickly shaking her head to rid herself of the dizziness.

"Eh-hem!" Clearing his throat, Jaune got Ruby's attention as he hung upside down from a tree branch. "Hey Ruby…"

"Jaune!" Izuku called out to his best friend as he ran up to go check on him. Shoto followed his partner with Mina also tagging along while Fumikage stayed close to the temple.

"Did your sister just fall from the sky?" Blake asked Yang with a bewildered look.

"I…" Yang tried to say only to be interrupted by something.

"YEEEE-HAAAAW!" Suddenly come out of the woods was an Ursa minor. It rose up and waved its claws around randomly…before falling limp on the ground causing the girl riding it, revealed to be Nora, to fall down to the ground. Nora stood up and let out a sad whine as she poked the now dead Ursa as it quickly started to disintegrate. "Aw…it's broken…"

Coming out of the woods next was Nora's partner Ren, who slouched down and put his hands to his knees while breathing heavily, the ninja boy having struggled to keep him with Nora as she rode the Ursa to the temple. "Nora…" Ren managed to breath out as he leaned himself against a tree. "Please... Don't ever do that again."

But when Ren rose his head to look up at Nora, he found the red headed girl was no longer there and was instead at the temple looking at one of the relics, a white rook. "Ooooooo!" Nora let out before grabbing the relic and striking a pose. "I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" The hammer wielding girl sang out while dancing around a bit.

"NORA!" Ren yelled loudly.

Nora immediately stopped singing and dance as she giggled and started skipping over to her partner. "Coming Ren!"

"Did that girl just ride in on an Ursa?" Blake questioned again, beginning to question the sanity of some of her classmates.

"I…" Yang was once against interrupted before she could make a comment.

Pyrrha coming running towards the temple and hot on her tail, uprooting and knocking down a bunch of trees in its pursuit, was the giant scorpion Grimm she and Jaune encountered in the cave. "Pyrrha!" Jaune called to the amazon in concern as Izuku helped him out of the tree.

"Jaune!" Pyrrha smiled at seeing that her partner was safe.

And if that wasn't enough…

"RUN FASTER GOD DAMMIT!"

"I'M TRYING! HOW IS THIS THING MOVE SO FAST!"

Rushing out of a different part of the woods was Katsuki and Eijiro, running as fast as they could towards the temple. On their tails was a giant alligator-like Grimm that was about the same size as the scorpion one. The alligator Grimm had piercing blood red eyes like all Grimm and has sharp white claws on all its feet and many rows have razor sharp teeth and its body was covered in white spikes.

"JUST DIE ALREADY!" Katsuki yelled as he turned around and aimed both of his hands towards the Grimm and created a giant explosion that, while not doing to much damaged to the heavily armored Grimm, did managed to send it back a bit and obscure its vision with smoke.

"Nice shot man!" Eijiro complimented the ash-blond with a grin.

"Did they just run all the way here with a Death Stalker and Carnage Snapper on their tails?!" Blake questioned rather loudly, wondering how the hell these people managed to do that.

"Grrrr, I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!" Yang suddenly snapped as her lilac eyes turned a deep red and her blond hair glowed as yellow flames ignited off of it. "CAN EVERYONE JUST CHILL OUT FOR TWO SECONDS BEFORE SOMETHING CRAZY HAPPENS!?"

Two seconds had passed and suddenly something poked Yang's shoulder. Yang looked and her eyes widened as she saw the shadow monster Mina saw earlier coming out of Fumikage's body and gesturing for her to chill out. "Hey, just calm down," The shadow told her in a calm tone. "Freaking out ain't gonna get us anywhere,"

"…" Yang was silent at first as she looked between the shadow and Fumikage. Well…it certainly cooled her off but now she, and lots of the people around them were just incredibly confused. "Ok what the hell…"

"You'll have to forgive Dark Shadow," Fumikage told everyone, revealing the name of the shadow creature coming out of his body. "He often comes out when he's not supposed to,"

"Oh you love it and you know it," Dark Shadow told Fumikage while pointing a finger at him.

Despite Dark Shadow's interrupted, Ruby tugged on her sleeve and pointed up. "Um…Yang…" Ruby meekly spoke up as she and everyone else nearby looked up to see a giant Nevermore Grimm circling around the temple…with Weiss hanging onto it.

"What is going on over here!?" And just then the final pair entered the fray. Running up to the temple at high speeds was Tenya with Kaminari hanging onto his back piggyback style. "We heard all the commotion! What seems to be the situation?!"

"Um, it looks like a lot of shit," Denki blinked and rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing thing. Off to the left Pyrrha was doing her best to hold off a Death Stalker, to the left a Carnage Snapper was recovering from Katsuki's explosion, and above them was a giant Nevermore with the white-haired girl he saw in the locker rooms hanging onto it. "What the hell is going on?"

"Weeeeell, me and Weiss were trying to find the temple…" Ruby nervously began to explain her story. "So to help us find it we kinda…hitched a ride on the Nevermore…"

Everyone immediately looked at Ruby like she was absolutely insane…except for Nora. "Ooooo, fun!" The hyperactive girl chirped. "I gotta try that sometime!"

"NO!" Ren was quick to well, making Nora pout.

"Are you serious!?" Tenya yelled at Ruby in disbelief. "Don't you know how irresponsible and foolish that is?!"

"Why does everyone keep saying that…" Ruby whispered as she kicked a nearby stone.

"HOW COULD YOU LEAVE ME?!" Weiss shouted from all the way up in the sky.

"I SAID JUMP!" Ruby shouted back.

"She's gonna fall." Mina said as she crossed her arms behind her head.

"She'll be fine," Ruby waved the comment off.

"She's falling." Ren said as everyone watched as Weiss lost her grip on the Nevermore's feathers and started falling down to Remnant.

Jaune grinned at this and started to run to where Weiss was gonna fall. "I got ya!" Jaune yelled as he saw this chance to have his hero moment and hopefully have Weiss fall for him…only for his foot to get caught under a fallen branch causing him to trip and fall on his face. "Ow! Not again…"

"AAAAHHH!" Weiss screamed as she saw the ground coming closer and closer by the second. The white-haired girl closed her eyes and brace for a very heavy impact…only to feel a pair of strong arms catch her before she could hit the ground. Opening her eyes Weiss looked up to see Izuku looking at her with a concern.

"Are you alright?" Izuku said as he held onto her tightly. He made it just in time, a second more and…well…he didn't want to think about what would happen then.

"U-Um, yes, I'm alright," Weiss said as her cheeks went pink a bit in embarrassment over the situation. She really didn't want to be seen as the damsel in distress…but she was thankful for the save. "You can put me down now,"

"R-Right! Sorry!" Izuku quickly said as his face went red from realizing her was holding a beautiful girl in bridal style. Izuku then set Weiss down on her feet gently, allowing the Schnee to take a few steps back from him.

Suddenly multiple roars got everyone's attention. The Carnage Snapper had recovered and was charging towards the group again, the Nevermore continued to circle the temple while looking down at all the humans below it and getting ready to attack, and Pyrrha was struggling to keep the Death Stalker at bay and was eventually flung right in front of the temple. "Great! The gangs all here! Now we can die together!" Yang shouted out as, after deeply analyzing the situation, came to the conclusion that they were massively F'ed in the A.

"Wow, how optimistic," Mina rolled her eyes in response to Yang's words.

"Maybe you extras will but those Grimm are gonna be dust by the time I'm done with them!" Katsuki said as he cracked his knuckles as his hands glowed. "Let me at him! I'll kill every single one!"

"Is everyone here batshit crazy or something?!" Denki yelled, looking at Katsuki like he was an absolute madman. He actually wanted to charge into the fray with three massive Grimm on their asses. "Look at them! They're huge! You're gonna get us killed!"

"Not if I can help it!" Ruby stated with a confident look as she took out Cresent Rose and charged forward at the Death Stalker. Firing Cresent Rose to give her some extra speed, she intended to attack the scorpion Grimm only for it to easily swat Ruby away with one of its claws. Ruby grunted a bit as she stood up, trying her best to handle the situation. "D-Do-Don't worry! Totally fine!" Ruby turned around and fired at the Death Stalkers face, but it didn't even flinch as the bullet failed to make a dent in the Death Stalkers bone-like armor.

Knowing that she was outmatch, Ruby quickly unsheathed Crescent Rose and started to run away. A loud cawing was heard, and Ruby looked back to see not only the Death Stalker chasing her, but the Nevermore began to descend down in her direction. "Ruby!" Yang called out to her sister as she started running after her to help.

The Nevermore then swiped its wings in Ruby's direction and proceeded to fire out its feathers like sharp projectiles. They stabbed into the ground and Ruby tried her best to outrun them, but a couple feathered ended up piercing her cloak and leaving her stuck, the feathers also kept Yang from getting to Ruby as a few landed around her and trapped the blond. Just then the Death Stalker caught up and rose its tail with the intention to kill the red ripped girl in front of it, Yang gasped in horror but suddenly a white blur sped by her in the direction of the scorpion Grimm.

Ruby closed her eyes and crossed by the large stinger…only it never came. "You are so childish!" Opening her eyes, Ruby saw Weiss looking down at her with the Death Stalkers tail encase in ice, with Weiss sword stabbed into it. "And dim-witted, and hyperactive, and don't even get me started on your fighting style." Weiss then lowered her head and let out a sigh as she admitted some flaws about herself. "And I suppose I can be a bit... difficult... but if we're going to do this, we're going to have to do this together. So if you quit trying to show off, I'll be...nicer."

"I'm not trying to show off." Ruby admitted as she managed to free herself and her cloak, allowing her to stand back up. "I want you to know I can do this."

"You're fine." Weiss simply told Ruby before heading back towards the temple.

Ruby smiled at hearing this and let out a sigh of relief as she lowered her head and clasped her hands together. "Normal knees…" She whispered before a cracking sound got her attention. "Woah!" Ruby let out as she saw the Death Stalker struggling to free itself from the ice.

As Ruby turned around to run away, she was quickly wrapped up in the arms of her older sister. "So happy you're okay!" Yang said as she held her sister tightly, Ruby smiling and returning the hug.

But the hug didn't last long as the cry from the Nevermore still flying above everyone got their attention, as well as the bellowing of the Carnage Snapper as it closed in as well. Ruby and Yang were quick to head to the ruins were everyone else was, ready for a fight should one break out. "Guys? That thing's circling back! And the others aren't too far behind." Jaune pointed out as he glanced at all the nearby Grimm. "What are we gonna do?"

"Look, there's no sense in dilly-dallying." Weiss pointed out as she pointed at the Chess Piece Relics. "Our objective is right in front of us."

"She's right." Ruby nodded in agreement with her partner. "Our mission is to grab an artifact and make it back to the Cliffs. There's no point in fighting these things."

"Run and live," Jaune nodded in approval. "That's an idea I can get behind!"

"Yeah same here," Denki said with a raised hand. "I don't feel like becoming gator chow."

"Speak for yourselves!" Katsuki yelled, angry at the idea of running away like a coward. "We gotta take these things down and reduce em to dust!"

"You can not be serious," Blake shook her head and looked at Katsuki in disbelief. "There's no way we can take these things on ourselves, it's a suicide mission."

"No, he's right." Surprising everyone, it was Izuku agreeing with Katsuki. The greenette had a serious look on his face as he analyzed the situation and took everything into consideration, mainly the size of the Grimm and what that meant. "Look at how big these Grimm are, that means they're old. They've had time to learn. And if we just run that means they know that we're scared and don't think we can defeat them. They're just gonna follow us, we have to take them down before they become a problem for the school or worse."

Most of the group gave Izuku a surprised look, Katsuki looking at Izuku for a moment before letting out a 'hmph' and turning away. "I agree," Shoto spoke up next, fully agreeing with Izuku and Katsuki. "Besides, we wouldn't look much like Huntsman if we just ran away right? Like Izuku said, we should deal with them now so they're no longer a problem."

"Hell yeah!" Mina pumped up her fist with an excited grin on her face. "Let's show these guys whose the boss!"

"Eh, I'm always done for kicking him ass," Yang grinned as she cracked her neck before punching her fist together.

Tenya then said his piece as he took off his helmet, "While I do think our main priority should be completing our objective, I can't help but agree with your reasoning." Tenya said as he looked to Izuku and gave him a nod. He then looked at Shoto next. "And while we're just Huntsman in training, it's still our responsibility to eliminate the Grimm and make sure they can't do humanity any harm. But if we're going to do this, we're going to need to act smart. It's best if we try separating them and taking them on one-on-one."

"There's a serious of ruins over in that direction," Fumikage spoke up as he pointed in the way of what he was talking about. "The structures are large with multiple levels, it should be easy to split them up there."

"Then that's what we'll do!" Tenya said as he put his helmet back on. With a plan set, Tenya, Katsuki, Ruby, and Jaune all walked up to the relics and grabbed one. Tenya and Katsuki grabbed the black King pieces, Ruby grabbed the white Knight piece, and Jaune grabbed the white rook piece. "This way! Hurry!" With Tenya and Fumikage leading the way, the group ran towards the bigger ruins with the Grimm hot on their tails.

Eventually they made it to the ruins that Fumikage spoke off and observed the area. Sure enough there were multiple levels to the ruins around with a giant pit in front of them with various bridges set up in it. There were numerous broken columns around with the Nevermore perching on one of them and letting out a loud cry as it starred down at all the students. Coming onto the scene as well as the Death Stalker and Carnage Snapper following close behind.

"Nora! Distract it!" Ren told the red head while pointing at the Nevermore.

"On it!" Nora grinned as she pulled out her hammer and switched it into grenade launcher mode and quickly started firing grenades at the Nevermore.

"Katsuki! Eijiro!" Tenya yelled out, the glasses wearing teen having learned the names of everyone while they ran towards the ruins. "See if you can get the Carnage Snapper to chase you! Get it separated from the other Grimm!"

"On it!" Eijiro said as he turned around and followed orders.

"Don't tell me what to do!" Katsuki yelled despite running towards the Carnage Snapper along with Eijiro.

"Alright big guy! Come get a piece of us!" Eijiro yelled as he held his arms out. Suddenly the gauntlets on his arms started to expand, coming bigger and bulkier with tubes extending out and connected to his backpack filled with dust canisters. "Alright Katsuki! Let's hit it with everything we got!"

"That's the only way I hit dumbass!" Katsuki yelled as he triggered explosions behind him to propel him forward so he could jump up right in front of the Carnage Snappers face and aim his hands right at it. "DIE!" Similar to before, Katsuki sent out a large explosion point blank at the Carnage Snapper, making it bellow out in pain.

"Here comes seconds!" Eijiro yelled as he jumped up and brought his fist together before slamming them down right on the Carnage Snapper's snout, crushing it.

"ROOOOOOOOOOAR!" The Carnage Snapper let out a loud roar of pain as its red eyes glowed with intense rage.

"Heh, that pissed him off," Eijiro grinned as he and Katsuki landed right next to each other.

"HEY!" Tenya called out to them with Denki standing next to him looking freaked out. "OVER HERE! LEAD IT THIS WAY!"

"ON IT!" Eijiro yelled back as he and Katsuki ran towards them.

"DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" Katsuki yelled again despite following orders.

With the others, Nora and Ruby were working together to fire at the Nevermore and trying to keep it at bay while Ren, Blake, Izuku, and Shoto were trying their best to keep the Death Stalker back. The Nevermore let out a loud cry as it flew right towards the majority of the group and flew right through the bridge everyone was one, destroying it and sending most of them into the air.

"AAAAHHH!" Jaune yelled as he started falling down.

"I gotcha!" Mina managed to catch him in midair before aiming her grappling hook towards the center area of the ruins and firing it.

"Dark Shadow!" Fumikage yelled as he, Yang, Ruby, Weiss, and Nora landed on the center area of the ruins. He saw Mina attempting to rescue Jaune and grapple them to safety, but he feared it may not be long enough to make it and they would need some assistance.

"On it!" Dark Shadow yelled as he came out of Fumikage's body and stretched himself downwards towards Mina and Jaune and caught the end of her grappling hook. "Don't worry I gotcha!" With a strong tug, Dark Shadow managed to fling Mina and Jaune safetly towards the platform before turning to Fumikage's side.

"Whooo, that was a close one," Mina let out a sigh of relief as she and Jaune stood up. "Thanks partner!"

"I wouldn't thank him yet," Yang said as she glared at the Nevermore circling around them.

When he got up, Jaune looked to see Blake, Ren, Izuku, Pyrrha and Shoto still on the side with the Death Stalker, and they were losing ground. "Man, we gotta get over there! They need help!"

"Let's do this!" Nora said as he ran up to Jaune.

However Jaune looked down into the misty abyss and gulped a bit as he backed away from the edge. "Yeah, but, uh... I can't make that jump." Jaune wanted to help his friend and the others, but he couldn't do that if he fell down into the abyss. Nora then smiled rather diabolically at Jaune and laughed as she proceeded to knock him back before turning her weapon into its hammer form and jumped towards the edge of the bridge. Jaune's eyes widened in horror as he was able to see exactly what Nora was about to do. "Oh wait!" But his call fell on deaf ears Nora slammed her hammer down on the bridge and broke it while sending Jaune flying to the other side. "NO! NO! NO!"

Nora giggled as she flipped her hammer around and put her foot on it and fired it at the collapsing part of the bridge, sending her flying towards the Death Stalker and allowing her to slam her weapon against its skull and then firing a grenade point blank at it and doing more damage while avoiding the stinger it tried to impale her with. "Shoto fire!" Izuku yelled with Shoto nodded and sending a stream of fire out left chakram and at the Death Stalker, making it cry out in pain.

However when Nora landed she end up crashing right into Blake and sent the black-haired girl falling into the pit. Blake looks up and seeings the Nevermore above her and takes out her weapon known as Gambel Shroud and launched the whip part of it with a gunshot so that the weapons blade stabs into the edge of one of the bridges. Grabbing the ribbon attached to her weapon Blake circles around before leaping towards the Nevermore and her aura glowed a bit as she created a duplicate of herself that grabbed her arm and swung her towards the Nevermore before disappearing. Blake managed to land on the Grimm's back allowing her to run down its body while slashing at it the entire time before jumping off and landed one top of a ruined platform next to Ruby, the two girls quickly moving to meet up with Weiss and Yang. "It's tougher than it looks!" Blake yelled, despite her attacks her blade barely managed to pierce the Nevermore's skin.

Yang then proceeded to load up a round of shot gun shells into her gauntlets known as Ember Celica. "Then let's hit it with everything we got!" Yang yelled as the girls around her nodded and readied their weapons as well as-

ROOOOOOOOOOOOOAR!

Suddenly a loud booming roar that almost shook the ruins was heard. Everyone froze and even the Grimm seemed to flinch at it. Suddenly a pair of burning red eyes was seen in the fog below as a creature started to leap from down below all the way to the top of the ruins. Now standing on top of one of the bridges was another Grimm of colossal size that greatly resembled a lion. A majority of its body was a pitch-black color like all Grimm and it had a long flowing mane that had white and gray hair at the beginning with the tips being black and blood red. It's lower body and legs was covered in bone-like armor and it had some of the sharp claws that all the students around had ever seen along with a long tail and mouth full of large teeth that looked like they could bite through the toughest of armors. "ROOOOOOOOAR!" The lion Grimm let out another roar to show it was not happy over these humans and other Grimm invading its territory.

"Oh no…" Izuku let out as he and Shoto met back up with Mina and Fumikage as they and everyone else witnessed the new Grimm enter the fray. "It's a Leo!"

"Great, just what we need!" Mina yelled out sarcastically. "Now what do we do!"

"…What are your semblances?" Izuku asked after taking a moment to think. "I need to know what they are so I can form a plan!"

Shoto nodded, understanding Izuku's logic, "My semblance is half-cold half-hot," Shoto began explained as he held out his chakrams. "I can power up ice dust with my right side and fire dust with my left side."

"Mine is acidic touch!" Mina explained as she held out her hand and turned the aura of her hand from pink to green. "I can melt just about anything I touch, though some stuff takes longer to melt then others."

"My semblance is Dark Shadow, you've already met him." Fumikage said as Dark Shadow popped out of him again and waved to everyone. "One thing to note about him is that he grows stronger but more ferocious in the dark, the smaller and more docile in the light."

"Don't blame me for going on a power high," Dark Shadow said as he crossed his arms.

"Alright, I think I got something…" Izuku said as he put a hand to his chin. They then watched as Izuku reached for a vile of fire dust on his pelt and poured in into his hands. Glowing, the dust formed into a large great sword that Izuku held tightly with two hands. Once he had his weapon, he yelled out to everyone in the ruins. "HEY! LIKE TENYA SAID WE HAVE TO KEEP THE GRIMM APART! JAUNE, YOU AND YOUR TEAM HANDLE THE DEATH STALKER! RUBY, YOU AND YOUR TEAM DEAL WITH THE NEVERMORE! KATSUKI, KEEP THE CARNAGE SNAPPER AT BAY!"

"RIGHT!" Jaune shouted back with Nora, Ren, and Pyrrha backing him.

"YOU GOT IT!" Ruby shouted as her, Weiss, Blake, and Yang all loaded up their weapons.

"SHUT UP NERD!" Katsuki yelled as he, Tenya, Eijiro, and Denki continued to run from the Carnage Snapper.

"Guess that leaves the Leo for us," Fumikage said calmly as he took out his bo staff and shifted it into its bow form. "I supposed I knew Beacon would be a challenge,"

"Let's do this guys!" Mina said as the four stood together as they starred at the Goliath as it let out another roar and got ready to go on the attack.

Cue: Red Like Roses Part 2

With Tenya and his group, he turned his head back to his team and formed a planned. "The Carnage Snapper's armor on its hide is too sharp for us to pierce!" Tenya yelled out. "If we're going to defeat it we need one clean shot while its flipped around! We need someone to get it to stay in one spot!"

Despite how much he was freaking out over the situation and beginning to wish he chose to go to Haven instead, Denki grinned and pointed a thumb to himself. "Leave trapping it to me!" Denki said with confidence leaking out of his voice. "Just need something to make it sit still for second!"

"I got you man!" Eijiro said as he and Denki turned around and started charging towards the Carnage Snapper. "Let's do this!"

Tenya nodded at the two before turning to Katsuki. "I noticed your semblance allows you to create explosions, I think I know a way how we can take it down in one shot." Tenya told Katsuki, the ash-blond scowling as Tenya held out his hand to him. "I get the feeling that you don't like cooperating but if we're going to do this we need to work together."

"…Grrrr, fine!" With great reluctance, Katsuki accepted Tenya's hand and agreed to go on board with whatever plan four eyes made. "Just this once!"

"Alright," Tenya nodded before turning around and bending down to let Katsuki hope on his back. "Get on, I need you to help me build up some speed!"

With Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang all proceeded to fire their weapons at the Nevermore, but the giant bird either dodged them or tanked them easily before crashing through the columns and platforms the girls were on, forcing them to leap from one section of falling stone to the next until they reach the higher bridge on top, just below the cliffs. "None of this is working!" Nothing they did was even making the Nevermore flinch, not to manage how hard it was to hit in the first place.

Ruby watched as Blake swung onto another section of the ruins as Yang continued to fire rounds towards the bird. Just then the silver eyes girls eyes widened as something came to her head. "I have a plan! Cover me!" Ruby requested from her partner as she fired a round to launch herself somewhere else as Weiss draws her blade.

With Jaune and his group, they were struggling a bit to keep the Death Stalker at bay was it tried to slam down its stinger at them again causing the bridge they were on to start collapsing. "We gotta move!" Jaune said as he and the others were forced to rush towards the Death Stalker to avoid falling down into the foggy abyss. The Death Stalker tried to strike Pyrrha with its claw, but the prodigy managed to block it with her shield known as Akoúo before slashing it with her blade Milo. The Death Stalker backs away a bit and tried to slash its other claw at Pyrrha, but Jaune came in to block It with his own shield allowing Pyrrha to jump above Jaune and thrust her blade at its claw causing the Grimm to shriek out in pain.

Ren then came running forward fire bullets at the scorpion as it tried to slam its tail at Ren. But the ninja saw this coming and jumped up and grabbed the Death Stalker's stinger as it rose it back up with Ren firing bullets into its tail making the Grimm shriek in pain once more. With a strong wave it managed to throw Ren off its tail and into a nearby pillar. "Ren!" Nora shouted before angrily firing grenades at the Death Stalkers face and causing it to back up. Pyrrha then added to it by changing Milo into its spear form and throwing it with a gun shot right at one of the Death Stalker's eyes.

As the Death Stalker backed up more Jaune looked up and saw that its stinger was dangling limply and quickly got an idea. "Pyrrha!" Jaune shouted as he pointed his sword at the stinger.

Pyrrha quickly figured out Jaune's head and nodded. "On it!" Pyrrha rose up her shield before throwing it like a disc and struck the stinger causing it to fall and pierce the Death Stalkers head with the shield bouncing against a column next before returning to Pyrrha's side.

"Nora! Nail it!" Jaune told the hammer wielder.

Nora nodded eagerly as she ran towards Pyrrha. "Heads up!" Pyrrha crouched down and rose up her shield allowing Nora to use it as a platform that she fired a blast at to jump as high as she could. She smiled as she rose up into the air before twirling down and slamming her hammer down on the stinger with all her strength, driving it right through the Death Stalkers head and crushing the bridge beneath it. This launched Pyrrha and Jaune all the way to the center platform with Jaune landing on his back, Pyrrha landing in the crouching position, Nora firing another blast to land next to Pyrrha. Ren then walked up to his group heavily breathing…before completely collapsing face first on the ground.

"Fumikage, stay at a distance and give us cover! Shoto, try and get it to stay in one spot with your fire and ice! Mina, help me make an open so we can strike it!" Izuku told his group as they ran towards the Leo which roared as it started charging at them as well. "Leo's are strong, but if you get through their armor then they can't take a hit very well!"

"On it!" Fumikage yelled as he diverted from the group and jumped onto a nearby column and took out an arrow and took aim. The Goliath let out a roar as it tried to pounce at Izuku, Mina, and Shoto but the latter quickly ran forward and aimed his left chakram at the lion Grimm and fired a powerful stream of flames at it causing the Grimm to let out another roar as it quickly landed and backed away. Just then a number of arrows were fired at it and the Grimm quickly rose up its forearms to block them with its armor, but instead of dinking off the arrows stuck to it and with a few beeping sounds coming from it, the arrows exploded and sent the Grimm back.

"Now!" Mina yelled as she ran forward and proceeded to jump down and slide under the Leo while morphing the hook on her wrist to a blade that she tried to slash the Grimm's belly, but her blade was unable to pierce the armor that was under there. "Dammit!" Quickly standing up, Mina rose her leg and rapidly kick in the direction of the Leo and sent a barrage of bullets at its hind legs.

The Leo roared as it turned around and slashed its claws at Mina with the girl quickly limboing under them before kicking the ground and jumping up to reach the Grimm's face wearing she quickly slashed at its face. Although it didn't piece the skull it did make the Grimm flinch a bit. This gave Izuku the chance to jump onto its back and, grabbing hold of its main tightly, Izuku rose up his sword with his free hand before stabbing it into the Leo's back.

"ROOOOOOOAR!" The Goliath let out a road of pain as the fire dust sword was stabbed deep into its back. Feeling both that and Izuku on its back the Grimm was about to charge and run around to get them off but before it could suddenly a wave of ice was sent towards from as Shoto slammed his right chakram on the ground and sent a large wave of ice that froze the Leo's legs to the ground.

"Have to make sure it holds still," Fumikage muttered as he took out two arrows with yellow tips. Taking aim, Fumikage fire them at the Grimm's back and immediately making it roar in pain as it was both shot as well as electrocuted due to the electric dust inside the arrows.

"Keep firing at it!" Shoto yelled as he aim both of the revolver heads of his chakrams at the Leo and started to unload them against the Grimm. Meanwhile Izuku kept holding onto the Leo's mane for deal life as it kept trying to shake him as Izuku repeatedly stabbed his sword into the Grimm.

"Let's try and melt that armor!" Mina yelled as she ran forward and tried to jump towards the Leo's head but was forced back as the Grimm bore its fangs as Mina and snapped at her, making her welp and jump back. "I can't get close! I need help dealing with its jaws!"

"Dark Shadow!" Fumikage called upon his sentient Semblance and handed him some ice dust tipped arrows as Dark Shadow came out. "Help Mina melt the armor on its face."

"Just leave it to me!" Dark Shadow yelled as he went off to help Mina.

Over with Eijiro and Denki, the two were currently charging headfirst towards the Carnage Semblance with Tenya and Katsuki currently working on their plan to take it down with one hit. It all hinged on them making sure this thing is on its back and in one place. "Alright! I'll keep it busy!" Eijiro said as he ran forward. The fire dust canisters on his backpack lowered into the back and causing fire dust to flow from the bag into Eijiro's gauntlets and making then glow red. "You just do what you need to do!"

"Sounds good!" Denki took out sword and begun shifting it into a different form. Attaching it to his wrist, the sword proceeded to shift into a hand crossbow. Reaching into one of the pouches attached to his belt, Denki took out a metal rod and loaded it into his weapon. "As soon as you get it on its back just leave the rest to me!"

Eijiro simply grinned as he punched the ground below him, flames shooting out of them thanks to the dust, and propelled himself forward towards the Carnage Snapper. Seeing Eijiro flying right towards him, the alligator Grimm opened up its mouth to try and catch Eijiro in it. Just as the red head plan. "Eijiro!" Denki yelled as he watched Eijiro entered the Grimm's mouth with the Carnage Snapper closing his jaws and-

SNAP!

"ROOOOAR!" The Carnage Snapper let out a bellow of pain as he opened his jaw again…with a number of its teeth broken.

"What's wrong big guy! Too hard for ya!?" Eijiro yelled as he stood up inside the Carnage Snapper's mouth. A crimson red aura covered his entire body, but it looks more solid then most aura's. On top of them both Eijiro's weapons and even his skin looked hard, with his skin looking like it was almost made of stone now.

EIJIRO KIRISHIMA: SEMBLANCE – HARDENING

HE CAN USE IS AURA TO HARDEN HIS BODY AS WELL AS ANYTHING HIS AURA HIS FLOWING THROUGH! BECOMING A NIGH UNBREAKABLE SHIELD AND INCREDIBLE WEAPON!

"Here! Have some of this!" Eijiro yelled as he started punching the inside of the Carnage Snappers mouth and shattering more of its teeth as well as sending streams of fire right down its throat. The Carnage Snapper attempted to throw Eijiro out of his mouth, but the red head quickly jumped out before he could be flung and landed in front of the alligator Grimm. The Carnage Snapper attempted to slash its claws at Eijiro but he was easily able to blocked them with one of his hardened gauntlets and used his other hand to uppercut the Grimm and make its head raise up. "Here's a big one!"

Bringing his fist together, Kirishima trusted them forward with all his strength and with the added power of the fire dust managed to punch the Grimm with enough force to slip it onto its back, exposing the armorless belly. "DENKI NOW!" Eijiro shouted as he turned his head to where Denki was.

"Alright! Get down!" Denki yelled as he proceeded to fire metal rods from his crossbow at an incredible rate and set them up all around the Grimm. Once that was done Denki took out a few electric dust crystals and held them in his hand for a moment as his aura glowed brightly, causing the dust to grow brightly as well as their energy was increased with sparks coming from them.

DENKI KAMINARI: SEMBLANCE – THUNDER CHARGE

HE CAN POWER UP ELETRIC DUST TO A MUCH HIGHER LEVEL, INCREASING THEIR ELETRICAL OUTPUT TENFOLD!

"Get ready for this!" Denki yelled as he loaded the crystals into his crossbow before firing out all the electrical energy towards one of the metal rods. "Thunder Cage!" With the electrical energy from the dust going through one rode, it started to connect with all the others and eventually created an electrical barrier around the Carnage Snapper that zapped it whenever the Grimm tried to move. "Got it! Now we just need those two to come in for the kill!"

"WE'RE RIGHT HERE MOTHER FUCKERS!"

Looking in the direction of the familiar yelling, they saw a rather bizarre sight. Katsuki riding on Tenya's shoulders with his hands aimed backyards and releasing constant explosions as Tenya ran forward at incredible speeds in the direction of the Carnage Snapper. "Remember Katsuki we only have one shot!" Tenya reminded the ash-blond. "We have to make it count!"

"Just keep running four eyes!" Katsuki yelled as a sadistic grin came to his face. "We're gonna kill this thing for sure!"

"Alright then! Let's go!" Suddenly Tenya's aura glowed bright as he sped up even more.

TENYA IIDA: SEMBLANCE – SHIFT GEAR

HE CAN RUN REALLY FAST, AND THE MORE HE RUNS THE FASTER HE GETS! HE CAN CONTINUOUSLY BUILD UP MORE AND MORE SPEED BUT HE HAS TO KEEP RUNNING OR HIS SPEED RESETS!

"NOW!" Tenya yelled as he jumped up and towards the Carnage Snapper.

"NOW YOU DIE!" Katsuki yelled as he and Tenya started spinning around at the air before Katsuki used his explosions to launch them towards the Grimm like a bullet. "HOWLITZER BLITZER!"

And then they made contact…

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

The explosion was big enough to shake the nearby ruins and knock down some nearby structures. Denki and Eijiro struggled a bit but managed to not get blown away. Eventually when the smoke cleared Katsuki and Tenya were standing next to each other where the Grimm once was, nothing remaining of the creature and with Denki's thunder cage destroyed. "Ok…starting to think that was a bit overkill…" Denki said with a sweat drop.

"No way! That was mainly as well!" Eijiro commented before the loud cawing of the Nevermore got their attention.

Looking up at a column, Yang was seen sending more rounds towards the Nevermore. She then needed to reload and took out two pairs of red colored rounds and loaded them up into Amber Celica right as the Nevermore flew at Yang opening up its beak to try and eat her. Similar to Eijiro earlier, Yang jumped right at the open beak and kept it open with one hand and used to other to fire her new round right down the Grimm's gullet. "I! HOPE! YOU'RE! HUN! GRY!" Yang shouted as the bullets exploded as they were fired into the Nevermore.

Once she unloaded the entire round down its throat, Yang jumped off the Nevermore and onto platform below with the Grimm crashing into the cliffside. But the giant bird recovered quickly and let out a loud cry. Yang smirked as she looked forward as the saw the rest of her group in front of her, with Ruby and Blake standing on their own columns. Weiss then sped forward, going past Yang while creating a path of Glyphs in front of her, increasing her speed and allowing her to run up the cliff face and stab her rapier into the ground and creating a pillar of ice that froze the Nevermore's feather tail to the ground and keeping it from flying away.

Weiss then back-flips into onto a glyph and used it to jump back down as Blake fires Gambel Shroud over to Yang with the two tightening it between two columns. Ruby then fired Cresent Rose to jump onto the makeshift slingshot and pulled it back with Weiss creating a black glyph to hold Ruby in place as they both aimed at the Nevemore.

Music Change: You Say Run

"You would come up with this idea," Weiss commented as this was by far the most reckless plan ever…but she was becoming a part of it, so she had no right to judge.

"Think you can make the shot?" Ruby asked calmly as she kept her eyes on the bird.

"Hmph, can I!" Weiss said with complete confidence.

"…Can you?" Ruby asked again with a raised brow.

"Of course I can!" Weiss snapped as they both looked forward again. Weiss twirls around and the Glynda turns from black to red as Ruby is launched right towards the Nevermore, Ruby firing Cresent Rose along the way for extra moment as her body left behind a trail of rose petals. She then landed feet first on the cliff face and her scythe catches the Nevermore's neck in its blade. Right as Ruby landed on the Glyph Weiss rose her sword and creates a series of glyphs up the wall, which Ruby dashes through by firing the entire way up. Ruby yells she runs up the cliff while firing Cresent Rose along the way. Weiss, Blake, and Yang all watch as Ruby continued to run up the cliff and when she finally reached the top, she fired one last shot from Cresent Rose and swings it up and completely served the Nevemore's head form its body. Ruby landed right next to the head as both it and the body started to disintegrate, Ruby letting out a relieved sigh as she sat down.

That just left one more Grimm.

"Back ups coming!" Dark Shadow shouted at Mina as it zoomed forward with ice arrows in hand. Once it was in front of the Goliath, Dark Shadow jammed both of the arrows into its mouth causing ice to explode inside its mouth and keep its jaws opened. "Now!"

"Got it!" Flipped high into the high, Mina jumped right in front of the Leo's face and slammed her hands down on its skull. Grunting a bit, Mina activated her semblance at full blast and the Leo roared as Mina started to melt the bone armor off its face. "Come on…stay still!"

But it didn't, and with a sudden burst of strength, the Leo managed to throw Izuku and Mina off it and shattered the ice Shoto trapped him in as well as break the ice inside its mouth. However when Mina melted the armor around it face, it melted around its eyes and left if charging around blindly.

"Ugh…" Izuku groaned as he stood up and grabbed his fire sword. Seeing the Leo running around aimlessly, Izuku got an idea. It was dangerous and could easily get him killed if it didn't work…but it would end this. "Hey!" Izuku shouted as he got in defense stance and held his sword tightly. While it was blind, the Leo could still hear and turned towards Izuku and growled. "I'm right here!"

"Izuku!" Mina yelled in great worry. "What are you doing?!"

"…" Izuku was silent as he starred ahead at the Goliath. The Grimm let out a roar as it charged full speed at Izuku with the full intent on ripping him to shreds. Izuku stood his ground as the Leo jumped up and pounced towards Izuku with his claws out as Izuku rose up his sword and-

SLICE!

End Music

Izuku brought it down swiftly…cutting the Leo clean in half. The two halves of the Leo instantly started turning into dust as they started falling into the foggy abyss below. Izuku let out a few breaths as his fire sword disappeared and he fell onto his butt, panting heavily. "Hey," Looking up, Izuku saw Shoto holding a hand out to him. "Good job out there,"

"Heh, thanks…" Izuku said with a small smile as he took the hand and let Shoto help him up, Shoto helping support Izuku.

"So…" Everyone heard Yang spoke up as they looked around at the all the damage caused during the fights. "That was a thing!"


LATER THAT DAY

And once that was done, the group was safely able to make it back to school grounds with their relics in hand. Now it was time for the ceremony where they would officially become not only students of Beacon, but also form the teams they would be spending the next four years with. "Russel Thrush. Cardin Winchester. Dove Bronzewing. Sky Lark." Ozpin announced as four boys lined up on the stage. "The four of you retrieved the black bishop pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team CRDL, led by... Cardin Winchester!"

The crowd watching all cheered for the team as the screen above showed pictures of Jaune, Nora, Pyrrha, and Ren as the four of them lined up on stage. "Jaune Arc. Lie Ren. Pyrrha Nikos. Nora Valkyrie." Ozpin announced the next set of students. "The four of you retrieved the white rook pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team JNPR." The crowd started clapping again as Nora hugged Ren. "Led by...Jaune Arc!"

"H-Huh?" Jaune did a double take after hearing that. Was…Was Ozpin serious? "L-Led by...?"

"Congratulations, young man." Ozpin nodded at Jaune.

Pyrrha grinned at Jaune and gave him a friendly shoulder bump, but this ended up knocking Jaune down onto his butt and causing the crowd to start laughing. "I'm sorry!" Pyrrha quickly told him as he help Jaune up with the newly dubbed team JNPR heading off the stage.

Next to come on stage was Tenya, Eijiro, Katsuki, and Denki. "Tenya Iida, Eijiro Kirishima, Katsuki Bakugo, and Denki Kaminari," Ozpin listed the four students as their pictures appeared on the screen. "You four collected the black king pieces. From this day forward you will be known as team TEaKwooD. Led by…Tenya Iida."

"Huh?!" Katsuki let out as he looked to Tenya and glared at him.

"Thank you very much sir!" Tenya said to the headmaster, giving him a salute. "I promise from this day forward I will be the best leader I can be for my team!"

"I'd expect nothing less young man," Ozpin gave Tenya a nodded. Looking to Katsuki, Ozpin saw the ash-blond click his tongue before turning away glaring, clearing unhappy about the situation as the newly formed team TEKD headed off the stage.

Next to come up to the stage was Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang. "Next up, Blake Belladonna. Ruby Rose. Weiss Schnee. Yang Xiao Long." Ozpin listed the girls off as their pictures appeared on the screen above. "The four of you retrieved the white knight pieces. From this day forward, you will work together as Team RWBY. Led by.. Ruby Rose!"

There were various reactions among the girls. Ruby looked shocked while Weiss turned to Ruby in disbelief, Blake didn't seem to react at all and Yang was quick to hug her little sister. "I'm so proud of you!" And with that, the newly formed team RWBY headed off the stage, leaving the last group of students to come up on stage.

"And last but not least, we have Izuku Midoriya, Fumikage Tokoyami, Mina Ashido, and Shoto Todoroki." Ozpin listed off as they came onto the stage, Izuku looking stiff and nervously from all the people watching him. "You four collected the Black Queen pieces. From this day forward you will work together as team…InFaMouS. Led by…Izuku Midoriya!"

"W-What?" Izuku was broken out of his nervousness after hearing that. "R-Really?"

"Yes really," Ozpin nodded at him. "Keep working hard young man."

Izuku gulped and nodded as Mina suddenly brought him, Fumikage, and Shoto in for a big group hug. "Here's to Team IFMS!" The girl shouted with a big grin.

As the crowd gave one last round of cheers, Ozpin looked at his tablet and the list of all the newly formed teams. "It looks like things are shaping up to be an..."

"Interesting year."


And boom! Chapter three done!

So we got all our teams, RWBY, JNPR, TEKD, and of course IFMS. Thanks to Petrus for coming up with the name for Izuku's team, think it's really good!

Now then since this is the third chapter of this story, after I finish the next chapter of Loud 10 I will be moving onto the next two stories of my cycle. But don't worry, I'll get back to this as soon as it's its turn again.

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"First Day"