Professor Ozpin stepped aside and let Glynda take the stage.

"You all can rest for a few hours, then you'll be boarding another airship and heading to the Emerald Forest south of Beacon. That will be your formal initiation, and your first chance to prove yourselves here at this school. There will be an announcement when you need to convene on the dock. You are all dismissed!"


Ruby was walking with Yang aboard the airship they had all boarded. There were still an awful lot of people around. It was a bit intimidating, she thought. The Emerald Forest couldn't have been that far from Beacon, so the trip couldn't be that long.

"What do you think is going to happen?"

"I have no idea!" Yang said. "But I guess we'll be busting a few baddies, so you can show off your skills!"

"Yeah, I guess." Ruby noticed Weiss in the distance approaching that upperclassman she and Jaune had asked for directions. Wait, the upperclassman? What was she doing here?

"Pyrrha Nikos, right?" Weiss asked, walking up to her. "I hope I'm not being a bother or anything."

"Oh, no, not at all!" Pyrrha looked the girl in front of her up and down. "And you're Weiss Schnee, if I'm not wrong."

"I'm honored to know that you know who I am!"

"I'm more impressed that you know who I am, if I'm being honest. I'm nowhere near as important as someone such as yourself."

"No, no, not at all!" Weiss exclaimed. "You have to be the starlet of Beacon, I'm just sure of it!"

"I'm really not so impressive…"

"Well…" Weiss took a moment to think of her next words carefully. "It would appear that we're at a bit of a crossroads then. I will admit, I know the star Pyrrha Nikos, but maybe, if we were on a team together, I could get to know the person Pyrrha Nikos?"

"I would like that," she said, "but I think I'm going to simply see what happens once we're in the forest. If we're on the same team, we're on the same team."

"Ahem…" A blonde boy Weiss had never seen before walked between him and Pyrrha, an intolerably smug look on his face. "I couldn't help but overhear something about getting to know people? Jaune Arc, pleasure to meet you. I'm sure almost everyone here knows Weiss Schnee, the heiress, but how many people know Weiss Schnee, the girl? I'm interested in figuring that out, myself. Maybe we'll end up finding ourselves on the same team?"

"Actually," Pyrrha said, "I believe that the teams are made up of four students, so there's a chance you both could get what you want."

"You don't say?" Jaune turned on Pyrrha, the confidence he was trying to force getting a little giggle out of her. "Well, hot stuff, if you're lucky, maybe you'll find yourself on the winning team."

"You have a lot of nerve, talking like that to her." Weiss put herself between the two. "Do you have any idea who you're talking to?"

"Well…" Jaune took another look at Pyrrha and his eyes went wide. "Wait, what're you doing here?"

"What do you mean?" She asked.

"But you- and the signings- and the directions… you're a newbie like us?"

"Yes, I am."

"How?! I-I thought you were some super cool Beacon girl that all the new students looked up to!"

"This is Pyrrha," Weiss said. "She is a super cool girl, though. She was the top of her class at Sanctum, won the Mistral Regional Tournament four years in a row - a new record - and she's on the front of every Pumpkin Pete's Marshmallow Flakes box!"

Pyrrha looked like she was just getting more and more embarrassed as Weiss sung her praises, but Jaune wasn't impressed.

"Oh, that cereal? Yeah, I'm not a big cereal guy. I think I might have seen her in the supermarket or something, but…" He shrugged. "No offense!"

"None taken. Unfortunately, the cereal isn't very good for you, so it's probably for the best that you avoid it."

"So, after hearing all of that, do you really think you're in a position to ask her to be on your team?" Weiss asked.

"No, I guess not…"

"You should reflect a bit, Weiss. Professor Ozpin said that origin and status don't mean anything here." Pyrrha walked up to Jaune and laid a comforting hand on his shoulder. "If we do end up on the same team, whether or not you're 'worth' it is going to be determined by your effort and actions, not how successful you are compared to me. Keep your head up."

"Yeah… thanks, Pyrrha," he said.

"All students, please report to the airlock immediately," Glynda's voice came over the airship's intercom. Everyone started heading in the same direction, though Weiss lagged behind a bit.

"Hey," Ruby said. "Don't let what Pyrrha said get you down. It was just a little bit of advice. Not a personal attack or anything."

"Nobody asked you!" Weiss stomped past Ruby and Yang to join the others.

"No need to be so mean about it!" Yang called after her, but she was ignored.

All of the students assembled at the airlock, where Professor Ozpin and Glynda stood before them.

"Once you're in the Forest, your objective is to head north. There's a monument there with a number of artifacts." Glynda told them. "Take only one relic, and then make your way to the central clearing of the forest. That's where the airship will be waiting for you. Once you've all returned, we'll depart. I will stress this once, and only once. You will encounter Grimm in this forest. You are intended to do whatever it takes to dispatch them as you travel. Know. Your. Limits. Do not get yourselves killed. If you must, return to the ship, even if you do not have a relic. We will provide an alternative initiation if need be. Do you all understand?"

The students all voiced their assent.

"Alright," Professor Ozpin took a sip from his mug. "How you go about landing is completely up to you. The first person you meet eyes with when you touch down will be one half of your team. The two of you will then be traveling together, and Glynda already explained that to you. Everyone, take your positions. Are there any questions?"

"Um… Professor Ozpin, sir?"

"Yes, Mister Arc?"

"Um… if we're all going to be heading out from the center of the forest, then isn't it sort of pointless to do the whole 'first person you meet eyes with' thing?"

"Oh, we'll be in the center of the forest. You students will not be."

"Huh? Then how-"

"You will be falling." Ozpin took out a Scroll and made a call. "Open the hatch."

Just as he said, the airlock door began to lower, and the sound of rushing wind filled the room. Once it was fully open, the force of the open air began sucking the students out of the airship. They were all silent, except for Jaune, who was screaming for dear life.


Ruby landed safely, using Crescent Rose's recoil to gradually slow her descent. Once she was on the ground, she broke into a sprint. One thing and one thing only was on her mind, and that was finding Yang. If whoever she found was going to be one of her three teammates for the next four years and she didn't have any control over who the other two were, then she needed to find Yang.

Ruby saw movement through the underbrush and stopped. Was that her sister? When she saw a flash of white, she was about to run, then Weiss looked into her eyes. The two of them stood, just staring at each other, then Weiss kept on moving.

"Hey! That's not what we were told to do!"

"I don't care what we were told to do. I'm not going to just let you be on my team."

Ruby followed after Weiss, but she just kept moving. Until the two came across a tree that appeared to be crying. Looking up, the two saw that Jaune was pinned to the tree with a spear by the hood under his armor.

"Jaune?!"

"Oh, Ruby! There you are! Please help me!"

"Of course! Just a second!" Before Ruby would move, Weiss grabbed her and started dragging her. "W-wait!"

"If I have to choose between you and him, you're probably the lesser of two evils."

"But I can't just leave my friend! Jaune!"

Jaune sighed and resigned himself to his fate up in the tree.


Yang was wandering through the forest. She was supposed to be heading north, but since the entire point of this was to find a partner, she decided that she may as well wait until then to make the trek. She'd have to run into someone eventually. She heard rustling in the foliage nearby. She cocked Ember Celica, ready to shoot at a moment's notice, if she had to.

A large, lumbering shape came out of the foliage, its body big, bulky, and black as pitch. Shards of what looked like bone were sticking out of it. Then another one came out behind it. Two Ursai, one Yang. It wasn't like she had never seen Grimm before, but she had never had to fight them before. With her semblance, she'd have to be careful. Very careful.

She threw a flurry of punches, each one firing off one of Ember Celica's shotgun shells. They all collided with the Grimm, kicking up a large cloud of dust. She leapt back and reloaded her gauntlets, ready for whatever came next. The Ursai burst out of the cloud, charging right at Yang. She rolled to the side towards one and punched it in the jaw, hard enough to stun it, but the second was creeping up on her. Before it could strike, it was shot by something. It's cry of pain gave Yang enough time to get away from them both. She saw Blake holding a pistol pointed in her direction. The Ursa Blake shot looked at her, and the one Yang punched looked at her.

"Good to see you again," Yang said.

"Likewise," Blake replied, "but we can talk later."

"Grimm are big and dumb, so I have an idea." The Ursa charged at Yang, and she dodged. "Get them real pissed, make them hit each other!"

"I think I understand," Blake said.

As the Ursa went after her, Blake lunged over it. As far as Yang could tell, she split herself in two. Yang went in for whatever quick shots she could, just to rile it up more and more. Then she ran up a tree and grabbed onto a low hanging branch before taking a seat on it and watching the Grimm below struggle to reach her. Blake, on the other hand, was using her Shadows to confuse and disorient the Grimm, presented with two identical targets without knowing which one could actually be hit. Yang's Ursa began climbing, so she hopped out of the tree. It roared in frustration when it saw her on the ground all of a sudden.

"Alright, I think we're good! We're playing Chicken, Blake!"

"Chicken?"

"Just do it!"

Yang and Blake started sprinting towards each other, their Ursas right on their heels, and gaining on them. Right before they collided head on, they rolled to the side. The Ursai weren't so lucky, slamming into each other at full speed.

"Knock them dead, Blake!"

Yang didn't take any hits, but she was still well rested and full on Aura. She could go Hot for a single hit, but that should be enough for a singular Grimm. Her heartbeat began to accelerate, and her body began to heat up. Right before her fist connected with the Grimm's head, she fired Ember Celica. The full force of Yang's punch coupled with a shotgun blast at point blank, the Grimm's head nearly spun one hundred eighty degrees and the lower part of its jaw was blasted off, disappearing into smoke.

Blake didn't have the same raw strength of Yang, as she could tell from the punch, but she had to do her best to take it out before it recovered. She took Gambol Shroud's sheath from her back and gripped it tight. With the sheath in one hand, and her katana in the other, Blake lunged at the Ursa's neck and swung. Both blades cleaved right through it, and the Ursa's body dissipated.

"We did it, alright!" Yang exclaimed.

"Those Ursai were dumb." Blake said. Her eyes met Yang's for a moment, and then she frowned slightly. "Sorry about earlier. If I came off as rude."

"Huh? Oh! Yeah… Well, you were trying to read, and all. Can't really blame you, can I? Haha… I guess we're partners now, huh?"

"Looks like. We're supposed to be heading north. I think it's… that way."

Blake pointed, but Yang couldn't see anything particularly important about the direction she pointed in. She shrugged and started following her. There wasn't much point in objecting when she didn't know which way was which.


Jaune tried grasping at the spear that pinned him to the tree, but it was in the tree just firmly enough that he couldn't pull it out. Someone had thrown it, so they'd have to come back for their weapon, right? But how long would he need to sit around waiting for that? He hung his head in shame.

"How's it hanging, Jaune?"

Jaune saw Pyrrha waving at him from down below. "Really, a pun? Now of all times?"

"Sorry." Pyrrha crouched low, as if she were getting ready for a track race. She set off, bounding up the tree. She grabbed onto the spear and wrenched it from the tree, freeing Jaune. She spun through the air, landing neatly on the ground, while Jaune fell on the ground in a heap.

"Thanks for saving me… I don't know where I'd be without you."

"No, it's alright. I'm sure you would've been fine."

Pyrrha helped Jaune up and started walking. He started after her. If anyone would just know what direction is north, it probably would've been her.

"I would not have been fine. A fall from that height?" He shuddered.

"Well, your Aura would definitely be broken, and the shock probably would have knocked you out, but I don't think the airship was so high it would have killed you. Even then, your semblance might be one that would be really useful for making a cushy landing…"

"My Aura would've done what?"

"Your Aura would've protected you from simply dying on impact," Pyrrha repeated.

Far away in the forest, a young far eastern man walked along. He came across a series of small hills and stopped in his tracks. He drew the handguns that were at his sides and held out a hand to alert his companion to stop. A young woman with fair skin and vibrant orange hair was accompanying him, resting a large hammer across her shoulders.

The young man nodded at his companion, who readied her hammer. He dashed forward towards one of the hills. There was something wrong about them. He knew it. The hills stirred, and then lunged. He leapt to the side, but a moment too late. The head of a massive snake Grimm slammed into him, sending him flying towards a tree.

"The world is a dangerous place, but our Aura makes it a fair bit safer."

He rebounded and kicked off of the tree, rolling onto the ground. The snake loomed above him. The young man shot at it. His bullets didn't do much, but that wasn't his plan. The snake lunged at him, and the young man danced out of the way. The snake slithered across the ground at breakneck speeds in pursuit of him. He stopped, and the snake went in to devour him. He rolled out of the way, and the snake was met with the redhead, arms winded back and a devilish grin on her face. She brought her hammer down on the snake's head hard.

"Things that would normally maim us feel like little more than glancing blows."

Her companion's handguns had collapsible blades attached to them. He plunged one of them into the Grimm's eyes and tore through it, and it reared up in pain. Its second head sped towards him, and the young man braced himself for the hit. The girl ran ahead of him, hammer wound back, like a massive baseball bat, and swung. She knocked the head away, and her partner leapt into action. He ran to the other side of the snake's first, injured head, where it could still see. It snapped at him, and he leapt onto it, stabbing one of his blades into its head to steady himself. He took aim at the other eye and plunged his free blade deep into it. The snake violently thrashed about, and the young man had to hang on for dear life. The snake slammed itself into a tree, hitting the young man hard, but he still held on.

"Without our Aura, fighting the Grimm would be much harder, if not outright impossible."

His companion ran underneath the snake's head, collapsing her hammer into a grenade launcher. She fired right into the underside of its head. It hissed at her and dove. She aimed again, and right before it reached her, she fired directly into its mouth.

"If our Aura can help us stand up to the likes of a King Taijitu or an Ursa Major, then it can definitely help us survive some pretty nasty falls."

Half of the snake disappeared in a burst of smoke and the young man fell to the ground. The girl helped him up, offering her shoulder for him to lean on once he was on his feet, and the two went on their way as the snake's remaining half writhed in agony and slithered away.

Just as far away from Jaune and Pyrrha, but in the opposite direction, were Ruby and Weiss. They were facing down a trio of Grimm not unlike the Ursa, but more lean.

"How could a semblance have saved me?" Jaune asked.

Ruby and Weiss were back to back one moment, then Ruby was gone the next. Weiss set her eyes on one of the Beowolves. One well placed stab to the muzzle should have been enough to down it. She used a Glyph to propel herself forward. Then Ruby appeared in front of her. The two collided and fell to the ground. The Beowolf lunged at the two bumbling girls.

"Well, that's a bit more difficult. Aura just absorbs the impact. Your semblance uses your Aura as a battery."

Ruby Burst out of the way, and Weiss used a Glyph to propel herself sideways.

"Depending on what it is, it might cushion your landing, help you reorient yourself, simply defy the laws of gravity, or any other number of things."

Ruby and Weiss glared at each other, then turned their backs on one another. A second Beowolf charged Weiss, but she blocked it with a Glyph. In its moment of confusion, she pierced its head multiple times. The Grimm went limp and exploded into a puff of smoke. Ruby stared down another Beowolf. When it charged, she Burst behind it, wrapping Crescent Rose's blade around its neck, and fired. The recoil tore its head right off. The last remaining Beowolf stared the two down, and let out a fearsome roar.


"Wait, why am I even telling you this?" Pyrrha shook her head. "You already know this!"

"Yeah, you're right! Haha… I mean, I was pretty good at Sanctum, but I wasn't that good in class. I was big on action and athletics, though! All practice, no theory, or something like that."

"Come now, Jaune," she said, "you must know that it isn't good to lie."

"L-lie? What're you talking about?"

"Sanctum wouldn't just let you get away with barely knowing how Aura works! That, and…" She walked closer to him, lightly poking his chestplate. "Trying to use Sanctum on someone like me won't work. I went to Sanctum. We're the same age. There wasn't any Jaune Arc in my class." Jaune just stood, staring at Pyrrha in silence. "So you lied about going to Sanctum. Which definitely raises questions about how you got into Beacon."

"Listen, Pyrrha, I-"

She pressed a finger to his lips, and Jaune went red.

"No words. Like I said, your efforts and actions are the things that determine your worth, Jaune. You're in Beacon now. Prove that you belong here, no matter what the paperwork would say. We should be going. We can't exactly stay in this forest the entire day."

Pyrrha looked into the sky, though Jaune wasn't sure what she was looking for. She nodded to herself and started walking, calling for Jaune to follow her.


"All of our pairs have been formed, it looks like," Ozpin sat back in a chair aboard the airship at the forest's center. Glynda was pacing back and forth before him, a look of unease clear on her face. "Any in particular that interest you, Glynda?"

"A few…" she said, "Nora Valkyrie and Lie Ren… Pyrrha Nikos and Jaune Arc… Ruby Rose and Weiss Schnee… all three of those pairs seem like they should go together like oil and water, don't you think?"

"I understand what you mean, yes. However, I would not worry about them."

"Let me guess, Professor. Fate?" Ozpin took a sip of his mug and Glynda sighed. "Why do you chalk up so many things to fate?"

"Miss Schnee had her future made for her in Atlas from the moment she was born, yet here she is. Miss Rose shouldn't even be here because of her age. Mister Arc cheated his way into Beacon. Of all the places these children could have convened, they all chose Beacon, for their own reasons. I think it only makes sense that their meetings were meant to be. That those children are meant to do great things, both in the course of each other's lives, and the course of our world's history."

"I don't know why you overlooked that Arc boy's actions… Oh, wait, more fate. Nevermind…"

Ozpin laughed to himself and continued drinking from his mug.


Blake and Yang burst through the trees, a large Beowolf on their tail. Yang was laughing hysterically.

"Why did you have to shoot it?!" Blake asked. "It was just minding its own business!"

"We're Huntresses, Blake! We don't just leave Grimm alone!"

"Do you think this one is dumb, too?"

"Oh, yeah!"

"Hold it off!" Blake picked up her pace, leaving Yang with the Beowolf.

Yang turned on her heels, bracing herself for impact. The Beowolf rammed into her, and she grabbed onto the bone like objects protruding out of it. It pushed her back, but she held her ground. Yang's thigh began to scream in pain as the Beowolf's fangs tore into her flesh. She went Hot, her eyes wet with tears. She punched the Grimm in the side of the head, firing Ember Celica into it. It let go and Yang jumped back. Her heartbeat slowed down, becoming more calm and rhythmic. Steam started to rise from her thigh as her Aura began healing the wound.

"Yang, over here!"

She stumbled at first, but Yang ran towards Blake. She was sitting up in a tree. There was some black band in between the tree she was sitting in and the one next to it. Yang slid under it. As the Beowolf roared, it ran into the band. The Grimm clotheslined itself. Blake leapt down from the tree, her blades in hand. She decapitated the Grimm, and its body dissolved below her.

"Are you alright?" Blake asked. She noticed the steam rising from Yang's thigh. Even if she's the one that provoked the Grimm, Blake felt bad knowing she was hurt.

"I'll live," Yang said. Her heartbeat was still steady and rhythmic. "Give me a little bit and I'll be right as rain! Oh! Look over there!"

Yang limped over to the ruins of some sort of building. Small objects were sitting atop a number of pedestals grouped in a circle.

"This must be the monument. And those chess pieces are the relics we were told about. I wonder if it matters which one we take…"

"Look Blake! I got a pony!" Yang waved a white knight at Blake, who just smiled and shrugged.


"It's this way!" Weiss started walking. She only lasted a few steps before turning around on a whim. "No, it's this way!" Ruby counted in her head, curious as to how long Weiss would last this time. "No, over here!" She lasted a bit longer than Ruby expected.

"Can you just admit we're lost?" Ruby asked.

"We are not lost!"

"How many times have you decided which way is north just to change your mind?"

"Well, it isn't like you're helping much!" Weiss cried. "First you screw up with the Beowolves, and you've just been following me the entire time! If you're going to lecture me about not being useful, you should do something yourself!"

"Not useful with the Beowolves? I killed one of them!"

"After screwing up one of my strikes and nearly getting yourself skewered! You should've called it if you were going to attack it!"

"You're one the talk! You didn't say anything either!"

"Well, how was I supposed to know you were going to attack it? You disappeared!" Ruby crossed her arms and turned her back to Weiss. "Oh, so now you're just going to have a temper tantrum and give me the silent treatment? Real mature." Weiss rounded Ruby, who just turned again to avoid her eyes. "I thought you were just young looking, but if you're going to act this much like a brat, you must be just a kid. How old are you?"

Ruby squeezed her arm and gritted her teeth. She had been afraid of this. That someone would treat her differently because she was younger. She could just say she was 17 like the rest of them. She could probably pass for a short 17 year old, right?

"...I'm 15…"

"15? Why are you even here, then?"

Weiss's words hurt. It sounded like a genuine question, so Ruby doubted she meant anything by it, but it hurt all the same. She turned her back to Weiss and looked up, as much to study the sky as to hide the tears that were begging for release.

The sun was to their left. Ruby pointed straight ahead and said, "we need to go that way."

"What? And why should I trust a ki-"

"Sun rises in the east, sets in the west," Ruby said. "If it's to our left, then north is right ahead."

"Oh…" Weiss smoothed her skirt and fixed her hair. "Well, then… lead the way, then."

Ruby probably should've felt proud that she had proved Weiss wrong, but she just felt defeated. It was only a matter of time until the initiation was over and she'd be free from Weiss, at least for a time. Strangers to friends to family. Ruby really hoped that Ozpin was right about that, if Ruby was supposed to be stuck with Weiss for four years.


"Ooh!" Jaune marveled at the dank, dark opening of a cave he had stumbled across with Pyrrha. "Do you think this is that monument? It's so mysterious looking!"

"I would assume a monument is manmade, personally…"

"Come on, we should check it out!" Jaune pulled out his Scroll and walked in, turning on its light.

"Jaune, wait up! Be careful."

The two walked into the cave, the only light to illuminate their way the further they got in coming from Jaune's Scroll. He got a bit more uncertain that they got the right place the further they went in without finding anything.

"Yeah, I think it might be time to…" Jaune saw an object glowing a fluorescent yellow in the distance, just hanging in the air. "Oh, that must be it!" He ran forward, then stopped dead in his tracks. A massive white, multi-eyed face appeared before him. "Uh oh…"

"Jaune. Just stay calm… Back away slowly. Don't give it any reason to -" Jaune turned and ran, screaming at the top of his lungs. "Or you could do that."

Pyrrha followed after him, and the two ran as fast as they possibly could to stay ahead of the gigantic scorpion chasing them.


"Well, we have a relic now," Blake said. "How about we…"

Some shrill voice pierced the air. It was some combination of maniacal laughter and a battle cry. An Ursa burst through the trees, some colorful shape riding atop it. It fell over, and the girl that was riding it twirled an immense hammer, knocking the Ursa into a tree so hard it shattered it before evaporating into mist. A boy jogged in after her, breathing heavily.

"Damn, she made that Ursa her bitch!" Yang said.

"That's a bit… excessive."

"What do you say, Ren? Was that a home run?"

"Nora… please never do that again… it looks like we're here though."

Nora skipped right past Yang and Blake, who were still bewildered from her sudden appearance. She looked at the chess pieces for a minute before setting her eyes on a white rook.

"I'm queen of the castle! I'm queen of the castle!" She danced around with the rook while the rest of them just looked on in confusion.

"Do any of you hear that?" Blake's ears twitched.

It took a few seconds before the air was pierced by some alien caterwaul from above.

"I…" Yang looked up, shielding her eyes from the sun. "Think I recognize that voice."

"How do you recognize that? Oh, are you some sort of wind whisperer?" Nora asked, descending on Yang.

Something crashed into the ground in the middle of the four of them, scattering rose petals all around them. As the petals settled and the fluttering of red calmed, Ruby appeared, Weiss in her arms. Weiss had her eyes closed tight and her arms tightly wrapped around Ruby's neck.

"Oh, hey, sis!"

"Oh, Yang!" Ruby stood up, not struggling much with Weiss's weight. Swinging Crescent Rose around was apparently better strength training than she thought. "You can let go now Weiss." Weiss jumped out of Ruby's arms. "Oh, the relics! Now I just need to-"

Then more screams. A shriek from above drew everyone's attention to the air, where a gigantic bird soared overhead. More screams came from the ground, where Jaune and Pyrrha burst into the clearing, the scorpion behind them.

"A Nevermore?!" Blake asked.

"And a Deathstalker!" Yang added.

"I guess it noticed that Weiss and I hitched a ride," Ruby said. "I thought we were like little fleas and it wouldn't feel a thing!"

"I still can't believe that you got me to agree to that!" Weiss said.

"It's good to see you all!" Pyrrha turned on the Deathstalker. She twirled her spear, and it shifted into a rifle. She fired on it as it bore down on Jaune, staggering it for a split second. He just barely made it to the rest of the group by the time it recovered. "Eight of us, two of them."

"Make that three of them!" Nora said. A massive white snake slithered by, flicking its tongue at the group. "Looks like this King Taijitu wants some more!"

"Should've known leaving it alive would come back to bite us…" Ren breathed.

"Look alive, everyone!" Pyrrha ordered. "We outnumber them more than two to one! If we play our cards right, we'll be fine!"

Ruby drew Crescent Rose. The rest of the people around her all drew their weapons, and the eight Beacon freshmen prepared themselves for the fight to come, the three gargantuan Grimm blocking their every path out.